Spotify’s Prompted Playlists can help you find new podcasts to listen to

On Tuesday, Spotify expanded its Prompted Playlists characteristic to see podcasts, an update that could make it easier for Premium users to find caller shows to perceive to. Prompted Playlists were primitively launched arsenic a beta feature successful December, but antecedently only worked for music. You tin usage the characteristic to efficaciously make customized Discover Weekly playlists utilizing matter prompts to “steer the algorithm” toward circumstantial genres aliases themes.

Tuesday’s update allows you to do the aforesaid point pinch playlists of podcast episodes. The characteristic is still successful beta, though, and is presently only disposable successful English for Premium users successful the U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Sweden.

When I tried retired the updated feature, Spotify’s AI took respective minutes to make my podcast playlist (including a measurement it described arsenic “verifying humor”), but I was amazingly satisfied pinch the results. I asked for a playlist of Dungeons & Dragons existent play shows, including a operation of celebrated bid and hidden gems. My first punctual highlighted an rumor that’s worthy noting if you’re utilizing this characteristic for podcasts — it will propulsion random episodes of shows, which could beryllium an rumor if a show is designed for chronological listening.

This was beautiful easy to fix, though. After generating a playlist, you tin spell backmost successful and edit your punctual to update the playlist. I added a statement specifying that the playlist should only see the first episodes of campaigns aliases shows. The caller sampling the AI gave maine was much well-rounded than I expected, including a mates episodes of Dimension 20 and Critical Role on pinch immoderate smaller shows I either hadn’t heard of earlier aliases haven’t had a chance to perceive to yet, for illustration Tales from the Stinky Dragon and Join the Party.

Each section successful the playlist besides included a little AI-generated explanation of really the section fits into my prompt. While I’m usually skeptical of AI-generated summaries for illustration this, the summaries for shows I person watched were accurate, for illustration describing Dimension 20: Fantasy High arsenic “funny pinch existent stakes.” It’s vague, but astatine slightest not misleading.

You tin adhd to and manually edit Prompted Playlists aft generating them, aliases support updating them if you’re not a instrumentality of the podcast episodes the AI pulls for you. While I still don’t scheme connected utilizing this characteristic for music, it could beryllium useful for immoderate listeners erstwhile it comes to podcasts, specifically compiling a “first episodes” sample battalion for illustration this. You tin besides group the playlist to refresh regularly truthful you tin get caller podcast samplers regular aliases weekly.

To effort retired the feature, spell into the Spotify app and prime “Create” past take “Prompted Playlist” from the menu. In the punctual matter box, picture what benignant of podcast episodes you want the playlist to see and deed “Generate playlist.” The first mates of times I tried it, I sewage an correction saying Prompted Playlists don’t support podcasts yet. The rumor was resolved aft I updated the app.