{"id":559108,"date":"2026-07-20T14:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/559108\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:20:15","slug":"spotify-premium-users-can-now-talk-to-the-app-to-choose-music-and-learn-about-what-theyre-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/559108\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify Premium users can now \u2018talk to\u2019 the app to choose music and learn about what they\u2019re playing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spotify<\/a> Premium subscribers can now hold a back-and-forth conversation with the app to choose what they listen to.<\/p>\n

The Stockholm-based company started rolling out the conversational feature in beta last Tuesday (July 14).<\/p>\n

By typing or speaking, eligible Premium users can talk to Spotify across the app\u2019s Home and Now Playing views on mobile, the company said in a blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spotify says the feature lets users \u201chave a back-and-forth conversation to choose what\u2019s playing, learn about the music you love, revisit your listening history, and go deeper on podcasts and audiobooks, all without leaving Spotify.\u201d<\/p>\n

To steer playback, a listener can ask the app to \u201cPlay some artists I haven\u2019t heard before,\u201d then narrow it with follow-ups such as \u201cAdd some Bad Bunny\u201d or \u201cmake it more upbeat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Users can also tell Spotify to \u201csave this song,\u201d \u201cadd this to my queue,\u201d or \u201cfollow this artist.\u201d<\/p>\n

The feature also works from the app\u2019s Now Playing view, where Spotify can field questions about a track, album, artist or genre.<\/p>\n

The company suggests prompts such as \u201cWhat is the inspiration behind Dua Lipa\u2018s Radical Optimism?\u201d or \u201cWhen was this album released?\u201d<\/p>\n

On Spotify, the same approach extends to podcasts and audiobooks, and to a listener\u2019s own habits, with prompts like \u201cWhen did I first listen to this song?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new conversational experience is part of our ongoing work to make Spotify more personal and useful for every listener, giving people more ways to get the most out of every moment,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n

The feature is rolling out gradually to Premium users aged 18 and over in the U.S., Ireland and Sweden, across iOS and Android devices, in English.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike any beta, it\u2019s a work in progress: responses won\u2019t always be perfect, and your feedback directly shapes what comes next,\u201d Spotify said.<\/p>\n

Spotify did not detail the technology behind the feature in its announcement.<\/p>\n

The company confirmed to TechCrunch<\/a> that the feature draws on a mix of its own AI technology and models from multiple outside providers, depending on which works best for a given task.<\/p>\n

The launch is the latest in a run of AI features from Spotify.<\/p>\n

The company launched its AI DJ<\/a> in 2023, using generative AI and a synthetic voice to play tracks alongside spoken commentary.<\/p>\n

It later added voice requests to the DJ and, in December 2025, rolled out Prompted Playlist<\/a>, a tool that turns text prompts into personalized playlists.<\/p>\n

In October 2025, Spotify also brought its recommendations into ChatGPT<\/a>, letting users pull up tracks and playlists through OpenAI\u2018s chatbot.<\/p>\n

The new feature reverses that flow, keeping the conversation inside Spotify\u2018s own app.<\/p>\n

Spotify\u2018s rivals have been building conversational and AI tools of their own.<\/p>\n

YouTube Music<\/a> has rolled out a feature called Ask Music, which it says lets users \u201cturn an idea into a customized radio experience by describing what you want to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Google<\/a>-owned platform has separately tested an \u201cAI music host\u201d<\/a> that adds spoken commentary between tracks, a rival to Spotify\u2018s DJ.<\/p>\n

Spotify ended the first quarter of 2026 with 761 million monthly active users and 293 million Premium subscribers, according to results reported in April.Music Business Worldwide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spotify Premium subscribers can now hold a back-and-forth conversation with the app to choose what they listen to.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-559108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}