Spotify Wrapped arrives – now with an AI podcast all about your year in music

The music you hearken to displays your feelings, life phases, and tastes. In consequence, yearly, Spotify customers eagerly await their Spotify Wrapped outcomes, which showcase their most-played artists, songs, albums, and podcasts of the yr. Now, the expertise is right here, and it comes with a significant AI improve.

On Wednesday, Google and Spotify unveiled a brand new “My Wrapped AI Podcast,” that includes two NotebookLM hosts discussing — or “unwrapping” — your music listening outcomes from the earlier yr. The distinctive dialog is generated to debate your particular outcomes and musical tastes. 

The expertise powering the characteristic is Google’s NotebookLM Audio Overviews, the AI device that has gone viral for reworking notes into participating podcasts. Some fashionable use instances for the device embrace discussing advanced analysis papers or class notes as a result of the AI streamlines advanced materials into an fascinating and casual dialog. 

The Wrapped AI Podcast is offered free of charge and premium Spotify customers within the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Eire, and Sweden for a restricted time. To entry it, go to your Wrapped feed on the Spotify homepage or go to this hyperlink and faucet “Your Wrapped AI podcast.” 

Google warns that the AI hosts could often mispronounce phrases or not generate an in-depth overview as anticipated, as a result of unpredictability of AI fashions. Nonetheless, it’s the first personalised podcast reflecting your yr in music, and when you’ve got by no means tried NotebookLM, the outcomes could blow your thoughts. 

Different new, non-AI-related options are coming to Spotify Wrapped, akin to Your Music Evolution knowledge story, which showcases as much as three musical phases that outline your yr in music. 

Additionally, you will obtain a Music Evolution Playlist that may be discovered on the Wrapped feed on the house web page. The playlist contains your musical phases all year long, in addition to new songs that Spotify thinks you may be occupied with based mostly in your picks. 

That will help you determine whether or not you’re a superfan, Spotify will now present you the artist you loved probably the most within the yr with a “longest listening streak” characteristic that reveals what number of days in a row you listened to an artist. This will likely be shared together with the traditional “Prime Listeners” characteristic that reveals what share of listeners you’re in on your favourite artists.

Lastly, Artist Clips and Podcaster Clips will give you quick messages out of your favourite artists, together with the highest artists in the meanwhile, akin to Peso Pluma, Billie Eilish, Sabrina Carpenter, and extra.