Spotify already gives users plenty of ways to discover new music, from Daily Mixes and Discover Weekly to Release Radar. Now, the company is looking to expand that even further by rolling out beta access to its new AI-powered Prompted Playlist feature for Premium members in the US and Canada.
Prompted Playlist first launched in beta in New Zealand last year. The feature lets you tell Spotify exactly what kind of music you’re in the mood for, then generates a playlist based on that prompt while also being able to tap into things like your complete listening history and current trends. In effect, it’s like having an AI chatbot such as ChatGPT or Gemini built directly into Spotify — except its sole focus is helping you create personalized music playlists.
You can give Prompted Playlist prompts like “mood-boosting indie-pop for getting ready to go out with friends” or “songs that feel like my early-2000s college years mixed with upbeat tracks” to generate unique playlists. You can also use it to explore your listening history, such as asking it to make a playlist of all the tracks you’ve added to your liked songs but have only listened to once. Additionally, you can set any playlist you generate to refresh daily or weekly, so it’s like having the ability to make your own Discover Weekly playlist, except you directly control the algorithm Spotify uses to create it.
“We believe that technology is only as good as the humans behind it,” Spotify said in a blog post. “That’s why we created Prompted Playlist, which lets you describe exactly what you want to listen to using your own words, then generates a playlist informed by your listening history and what’s happening in music right now.”
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How to use Spotify’s Prompted Playlist feature
You can find it by tapping Create
For starters, if you want to try Spotify’s new Prompted Playlist feature to see if it’s any good, it’s only available to Spotify Premium members in the US, Canada, and New Zealand.
However, Spotify notes that the feature is still rolling out to all Premium users in the US and Canada, so you might not see it yet, but you should soon. With that in mind, here’s how to check whether you have access to Prompted Playlist yet and how to use it:
1. Tap the Create button in Spotify (the plus icon in the bottom right of the app).
2. Select Prompted Playlist.
3. Describe to Spotify the type of music you want to hear, like a specific vibe or genre.
4. Spotify will generate a playlist for you based on your request, and you can set it to update daily or weekly.
Once you’ve generated a playlist, you can go back and edit the prompt to refine it, such as if you want the playlist to only have new songs, old songs, or songs you haven’t listened to before.
All in all, if you’re looking to discover more music on Spotify or want a quick way to get a playlist based on your mood, Prompted Playlist could prove useful, and it’s unlike anything Apple Music has. Usually, I’m wary of anything involving AI, but I’m curious to test this feature over the coming weeks and see how well it curates music. Spotify says it will make changes to the Prompted Playlist feature as it receives feedback during this beta phase. As I mentioned earlier, it’s rolling out now in the US and Canada for Premium subscribers and is already available in New Zealand. There’s no word yet on when it will expand to more countries.
Prompted Playlist’s expanded beta access comes just after Spotify announced it was raising the price of its Premium membership for US users.
