Your Spotify pack this year will include a personalized AI podcast
Spotify Wrapped has finally arrived, adding a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will showcase users’ “year in audio” in a new way. This year, Spotify is teaming up with Google’s NotebookLM to bring the Audio Summaries feature to the music streaming platform. It allows users to listen to an AI-generated audio discussion about their most played songs, top artists, time spent listening to music, and other metrics. This new display is now available to complement the usual image cards highlighting the same information.
Spotify Wrapped is getting an AI showcase
During a press conference, Spotify and Google revealed their partnership to add a new AI feature to the 2024 edition of Spotify Wrapped. The feature is powered by the NotebookLM platform, an AI-powered research and writing assistant. The platform also has an audio overview feature that allows users to add text, documents, or a URL to generate engaging audio discussions between two AI hosts.
This Audio Summaries feature is now being used to create personalized AI podcasts for all Spotify users in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Sweden, US and UK. Notably, the feature will be available to both free users and Spotify Premium subscribers.
To listen to the AI podcast within Spotify Wrapped, users must go to the Wrapped feed on the music streaming app or the website homepage. Alternatively, they can click here to go directly to the AI podcast interface. On this screen, users will need to tap “Your Wrapped AI podcast”. This will open a pop-up window where users can then listen to two AI hosts discuss their summary of in-app activities. Users can also share or download the AI podcast with others.
Notably, Spotify Wrapped was first introduced in 2016, replacing Spotify’s year-end showcase from the previous year called “Year in Music”. Since then, the music streaming platform has added new features and introduced new interfaces for it. The annual feature is usually rolled out in late November.
Spotify Wrapped shares information about users’ music listening behavior within the app. These include time spent listening to music, total artists listened to, most played music, most favorite genre, favorite artists and bands, and more.
