Spotify rolls out AI Playlists for premium users: How to use it

Spotify is turning to AI (artificial intelligence) to help its users create a perfect playlist without going on a song hunt. The company has announced a new feature dubbed as ‘AI Playlist’. This new feature will enable Spotify users to create a playlist using prompt to the company’s in-app AI.

Spotify says that its users can use prompts that reference ‘places, animals, activities, movie characters, colors, and emojis’ to create a playlist. “The most successful playlists are generated with prompts that contain a combination of genres, moods, artists, or decades,” the company wrote in a blog post.

But there are several caveats.

Spotify says that it is rolling out its AI Playlist feature to its Premium subscribers on Android and iOS in the United Kingdom and Australia. Also, this tool is available in beta mode to the premium subscribers, which means there is plenty of scope for improvements and tweaks. The Swedish music giant, in a blog post, announcing the development, said that it will continue to improve this feature in the coming months before rolling it out to its users globally.

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How to create AI playlist on Spotify

Step 1: Open Spotify on your Android phone or iPhone.

Step 2: From Your Library, tap the “Plus” button at the top-right corner of the app.

Step 3: Next select “AI Playlist” option.

Step 4: Select one of the suggested prompts or type your own prompt in the chat box.

Step 5: Wait for the AI to generate the playlist.

Step 6: Preview the playlist and delete the tracks that you don’t like. Users can also revise and refine the playlists by adding notes.

Step 7: Lastly, tap the “Create” button. Once you do that, your newly created playlist will be saved automatically in ‘Your Library’ section of the Spotify app.

But this is not the first one!

Notably, this is not the first AI-powered feature that Spotify has introduced on its platform. Last year, the company introduced a new AI DJ feature that first understands a user’s taste in music to play new and old songs matching that taste when prompted. At the time of launch, this feature was available only in the UK and Ireland. Later, the company expanded it to 46 countries including the ones in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. As of now, it remains unavailable in India.