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Image: Spotify This year’s Spotify Wrapped has arrived. As you look at your stats for 2024, you’ll find a few new features you can use to interact with your data, including one that lets you listen to and share an AI-generated podcast summarizing your listening habits. Spotify built this feature using Google’s AI note-taking tech, NotebookLM, which can generate a podcast with two AI “hosts” based on your research. On Spotify, the AI hosts will tailor their conversation to your top songs, artists, and genres of the year. This feature is available to free and Premium users in English across the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, and Sweden. Image: Spotify The NotebookLM-powered AI podcast will recap your yearly stats. “At Spotify, of course, we love audio, we love podcasts, and we’re always looking to be where our users are listening,” Molly Holder, Spotify’s senior director of product for personalization, said during a press briefing. “This partnership with Google seemed like a very exciting integration and a way for us to do just that.” Spotify Wrapped will also attempt to track how your taste evolved throughout the year with a new feature that will assign you up to three musical phrases for each month, like “heatwave,” “beach,” and “reggaeton.” The app will come up with a personalized “music evolution” playlist as well, containing your favorite songs throughout the year and new music tailored to your taste. Image: Spotify Spotify will show how your tastes changed throughout the year. Spotify’s AI DJ will again have a role in this year’s Wrapped, as Premium subscribers can use it to create playlists based on the year’s data with prompts like “Make me a playlist of songs that represent my music journey over the year.” Some other changes include the ability to see your longest listening streak for your top five artists and an update to the “share” button that will show you whether the audio you’re sharing is in your top 100 songs, top 20 artists, or top five podcasts. Apple Music, YouTube Music, and even Amazon Music all got the jump on Wrapped this year, releasing personalized recaps before Spotify. Still, there’s no doubt which entry in recap season is the most discussed one.

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