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Spotify is now an AI chatbot, too
A new Premium beta feature lets you explore music, podcasts, and audiobooks by chatting with Spotify’s AI.
A new Premium beta feature lets you explore music, podcasts, and audiobooks by chatting with Spotify’s AI.
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Spotify is experimenting with a new AI feature that allows Premium subscribers to play and explore music, audiobooks, and podcasts by having conversations with a chatbot. The “Talk to Spotify” feature appears across the Home and Now Playing view on Spotify’s mobile app. You can interact with the chatbot by typing your request in the familiar AI text box, or by selecting the mic symbol and speaking.
Amazon Music introduced a similar feature last year when it integrated Alexa Plus into the service. Spotify’s chatbot goes a step beyond providing AI-powered recommendations and general trivia, however, because it references your playlists, favorite artists, repeat listens, and listening data when responding to requests. That means you can ask questions about your own listening history to check when you first heard a specific song, or see what genres you’ve been into lately if you can’t hold out for the annual Wrapped insights.
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The updated AI capabilities are more conversational than older features like Prompted Playlist, which automatically builds playlists based on descriptions. Now, you can ask the Spotify chatbot to “play some songs I haven’t heard before,” and control what’s being played with further instructions like requesting specific artists or asking to make it “more upbeat.” Spotify says the new conversational experience aims to make the platform “more personal and useful for every listener,” making this one of several ways that the company is trying to address complaints about its algorithm.
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You can also ask the Spotify AI general questions about whatever you’re listening to, making the feature feel similar to using chatbot services like Google’s Gemini or OpenAI’s ChatGPT. That includes asking for when a song was released, exploring other titles an author has written when listening to one of their audiobooks, or checking if a podcast guest has appeared on other audio shows.
This update is rolling out gradually in beta for Premium users in the US, Ireland, and Sweden who are 18 or older. It’s available across both iOS and Android devices in English, though Spotify says this is a work in progress, and warns that “responses won’t always be perfect.”
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