AI has a huge influence on our lives, offering digital assistance in literally anything and everything. Artificial Intelligence has taken over business, healthcare, media, smart homes, IT, and other industries. Well, lately AI has taken over the music industry, too. Spotify was the first to launch the AI feature and listening to music was made better by helping create a stream of music based on the listeners’ preferences.
Spotify offers several advanced features by combining human curation with AI, and for the first time, Spotify is introducing the ‘Your Spotify Wrapped AI podcast’. The Spotify Wrapped feature allows the listeners to look back at the songs, artists, and albums they have listened to over the years. It summarizes top songs, albums, genres, stations, play counts, and much more.
Apart from recommending songs and playlists, Spotify has introduced Spotify Wrapped to bring something unique, which is AI-powered podcasts. This article will discuss more about how AI influences music and how the Spotify Wrapped feature also provides personalized podcast recaps. So, keep reading.
How does AI influence music?
AI influences music in many ways, including mixing and mastering, playlist generation, composition, music listening, sound engineering, and immersive audio experiences. Artificial Intelligence improves audio quality, automates mixing, generates customizable playlists, and optimizes sound levels. It provides users with a better music listening experience and helps create new music genres.
AI understands and analyzes existing music to learn patterns and create personalized playlists or styles of the artist. It also helps with audio mastering which usually requires specialized studios and expertise. The main benefits of AI in the music industry are cost-effectiveness and better accessibility. Let us now see how Spotify integrates with AI to create new, advanced features.
Spotify Wrapped featuring personalized podcast recaps
Spotify has introduced a new feature called Spotify Wrapped AI Podcast to help users reconnect with the music that has been their top choice throughout the year. Spotify Wrapped has been a huge success and many other third-party apps have tried to copy that feature, but they were not as successful as Spotify. Along with Spotify Wrapped, the Spotify app is unveiling the new ‘Your Spotify AI Podcast’, which is built with Google’s NotebookLM. This feature provides a personalized Audio Overview to help listeners immerse themselves in their favorite top songs, artists, genres, albums, and much more over the year.
Spotify uses generative AI to analyze the unique ways users have listened and to understand the inspiration behind their favorite tracks. The Your Spotify Wrapped AI podcast makes it even easier to understand users’ music preferences and the minutes they have listened to music throughout the year. The podcast will be available for free, and both free and premium users can access personalized AI-powered podcasts.
Your Spotify Wrapped AI podcast is available in English to access this feature, navigate to the Wrapped feed on Spotify and select “Your Spotify Wrapped AI podcast” to start listening. You can also just search for Your Spotify Wrapped AI podcast on the Search bar or click the link to your “Top Songs 2024 playlist but this feature is only available to premium listeners. You can either text or SMS your podcasts to your friends or send the link of your podcast directly to your friends.
You can download the audio clip to your device by clicking the share icon before sending a podcast. Spotify Wrapped has the goal to help users transform the listening experience throughout the year in a new way. Spotify has partnered with Google’s AI note-taking tool to provide listeners with the best experience. The only drawback of this feature is that it is only available in selected regions like New Zealand, Canada, the US, the UK, Ireland, and Sweden.
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Conclusion
Spotify never fails to surprise users with something new and this time it brings something new AI-powered podcasts along with Spotify Wrapped. At first, the Spotify Wrapped feature was just a summary of songs and artists listened to throughout the year but now listeners wait for their Wrapped to release. The AI-generated podcast is where to host discusses the users’ listening habits throughout the year, including top songs, artists, albums, playlists, and more.
This AI-powered personalized podcast is available for both free and premium users but this feature is currently available in certain regions only. ‘Your Spotify Wrapped AI podcast’ shows the list of your favorite top songs and artists separately to display the evolution of music throughout the year.
Users can easily access Spotify Wrapped stats by opening the app and selecting the ‘Wrapped’ button on the top of the homepage. It will display all information regarding songs you most listened to, listening minutes, and much more.
