Swedish audio streaming service Spotify has announced that it is testing a feature of playlists generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Currently in beta for premium subscribers only on Android and iOS platforms, the feature is currently limited to the UK and Australia.
Spotify: How to Create AI-Generated Playlists
Spotify said playlists are created based on text queries. Users can provide queries such as “an indie folk playlist that will warm my brain,” “relaxing music that will wash over me during allergy season,” or “a playlist that makes me feel like the main character” to generate personalized playlists in Spotify. In addition, users can also use queries that refer to places, animals, activities, movie characters, colors and emojis.
According to Spotify, prompts that will contain a combination of genres, moods, artists or decades will yield better results for users. While it won’t produce results for non-music related queries like current events or specific brands.
How to find AI playlists
- Go to the library and tap the “+” button in the top right corner of the app and select “AI Playlist”.
- Choose a suggested query or enter your own in the input text editor
- Spotify will offer some songs that match the input
- From there, you can manage your song selection by previewing and deleting songs
- Or, you can revise and improve the playlists you generate by telling the AI playlist what you’re looking for
- Tap “Create” and your new playlist will be automatically saved to “Your Library”.
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Spotify said it uses large-scale language models (LLM) to interpret user requests to create playlists. The audio streaming platform has recently introduced other AI features such as AI DJ and daylist power. Moreover, Spotify has announced plans to continue rolling out more such AI features for the platform.
First published: April 8, 2024 | 16:42 IS