Podcasts can be a great way to introduce yourself to a new hobby, immerse yourself in a current obsession, or just find out more about something you want to know more about. But often, you don’t know enough to know the good podcasts to listen to, so you spend far too long looking, instead of listening.
If that sounds familiar, then Spotify is here to save the day. Spotify’s Prompted Playlist feature now works with podcasts, so it can create you a playlist of podcasts based off a text prompt (via Android Authority).
Prompted Playlist can create a list of pods that refreshes every day
Prompted Playlist was launched at the start of this year, and it works on a simple principle: give Spotify a text prompt, and it will use AI to create a playlist based around that prompt. Now, you can use that same feature to create yourself a playlist of podcasts, thanks to Spotify’s latest update.
This update is rolling out to Premium users in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Sweden, and it’s easy to try it out. Just open your Spotify app, tap the Create button, Prompted Playlist, and then type your prompt. Spotify has ventured a few ideas for what you might want to use it for, and some of the more interesting are using it to build a true crime playlist, or catch up on the latest tech or pop culture news.
But the really cool feature here is the option to refresh the playlist every day or week, depending on your personal preference. So you can create your own catch-up podcast playlist that can keep you abreast of the latest on your way to work, while walking the dog, or washing the dishes.
It’s a powerful and extremely handy creation that Spotify has just handed us, but as ever, it comes with some caveats. Because this is powered by AI, it would be silly not to remind people that AI can sometimes be exceptionally stupid and throw in something completely inappropriate for the playlist in question.
So yeah, don’t rely on it too much, and don’t use it for anyone whose content would require moderation. While using it to create a kid’s bedtime story playlist sounds cute, it would be very in-line with what we know AI is capable of for it to throw in some true crime or horror stories by mistake.
