By The Verge | Created at 2024-09-24 13:03:15 | Updated at 2024-09-30 09:24:27
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Spotify is expanding an AI feature that creates customized playlists from your text descriptions to additional English-speaking regions. Starting today, people in the US, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand with Premium Spotify subscriptions (which start at $5.99 per month for students or $11.99 for individuals) can access AI Playlist in beta, following its initial launch in the UK and Australia earlier this year.
Subscribers can locate the feature within the mobile app by tapping the “+” button at the top right of their Spotify library. Selecting “AI Playlist” from the drop-down menu will then open a chat box to describe the playlist you want, such as “spooky songs to play during Halloween” or “soothing folk music for a chill bath time.” The feature will also provide suggested prompts. The AI Playlist beta isn’t currently available on the Spotify desktop or web apps.
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The generated playlists contain 30 songs and can be adjusted with additional prompts to better match the desired vibe, such as asking for more upbeat music. Descriptions that specify things like genres, decades, moods, or artists will see better results, but in my own testing, I found it was impressively capable of matching songs to even niche descriptions like “make me feel like a vampire hunter from Blade (1998).”
Spotify says it’s still “actively learning and iterating with each exchange” while the feature is in beta and may introduce changes to refine AI Playlist in the future.
