How to Use Spotify's AI Playlist Tool to Create New Playlists

Creating playlists on Spotify is one of those simple pleasures in life that everyone should do more often. It's easy, fun to experiment with, and can expand your musical horizons.

What is Spotify's AI Playlist Tool? How does it work?

Artificial intelligence is everywhere, with companies rapidly adding AI elements to their products and services. While many of these additions may seem unnecessary and unwanted, Spotify's AI features actually prove useful.

Many people have used Spotify's AI DJs to add some variety to their listening habits. Spotify now also offers an AI Playlist tool that, as the name suggests, creates playlists from prompts. Currently in beta, Spotify's AI Playlist feature lets you "turn your ideas into playlists using AI." You tell Spotify what you want to listen to today, and the AI ​​bot does the rest.

The feature works by looking for keywords in your search and completing playlists with songs that match. While AI is involved, the core technology that powers this feature is Spotify's recommendation engine. Spotify has a lot of metadata related to each song and matches songs to users and their tastes accordingly.

This is how Spotify knows which songs you'll like before you do; a listener who likes Song A will probably like Song B based on X, Y, and Z. Now, the same basic idea is used to create playlists based on simple keyword prompts.

How to Create Playlists Using Spotify's AI Playlist Tool

To create a new playlist using Spotify's AI Playlist tool:

1. Tap the Your Library tab at the bottom of the app.
2. Tap the + button in the top right corner of the app and select AI Playlist from the options that appear.
3. You can use one of the provided prompts or write your own prompt in the "Tell me your ideas" text box.
4. Once Spotify creates a playlist, you can tap + to add tracks to the playlist or tap - to remove them.
5. Once you're happy with the songs included, click Create in the bottom right corner to save the playlist to your library.

It's worth noting that even after you've created a playlist using the AI ​​Playlist tool, you can still tweak, edit, or delete it just like you would any other playlist. This means you can experiment as much as you want without having to deal with playlists you don't want.

Jessica Tanner

Update 08 October 2024