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Generate Apple Music Playlists With ChatGPT

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Apple Music is now available as an extension within ChatGPT, meaning you can search for songs, create playlists, and discover new music through OpenAI's chatbot. Here's how to set it up and what makes it worth using.

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What You Can Do With Apple Music in ChatGPT

ChatGPT's integration with Apple Music has the potential to change how you discover new music by letting you describe what you're looking for in natural language. Instead of typing specific search terms like you would in Apple Music, you can ask the chatbot for "upbeat 80s songs for a road trip" or "calm instrumental music for studying," and ChatGPT will understand the context and mood you're after.

You can even combine multiple criteria, like "jazz fusion tracks under five minutes with prominent saxophone," and ChatGPT will accurately unearth what you're looking for in ways that standard keyword searches simply aren't capable of achieving.

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You can request custom playlists based on specific criteria, ask for song recommendations, or explore music by decade, genre, or artist. And once ChatGPT creates a playlist, you can preview each track, and save the playlist directly to your Apple Music library with the option "Create Playlist in Apple Music." You can also save individual tracks using the + buttons.

The Apple Music extension requires a ChatGPT account and works with both free and paid ChatGPT tiers. You don't need an Apple Music subscription to search the catalog, generate playlists, or listen to 30-second preview clips, but you will need an active subscription if you want to save content to your library.

How to Connect Apple Music to ChatGPT

Before you can start discovering new music with the help of AI, you'll need to connect Apple's streaming service using ChatGPT's extension. You only need to do it once.
  1. Open the ChatGPT app and tap your profile in the sidebar.
  2. Under "Account" settings, tap Apps.
  3. Tap Browse Apps, then choose Apple Music in the extensions library.
  4. Tap Connect, then choose Connect Apple Music.
  5. Follow the on-screen prompts to sign into your Apple Account and permit the access request.
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If you're on desktop, you can perform the same steps in the ChatGPT app for Mac. Alternatively, go to https://chatgpt.com/apps in a browser and open the Apps section in ChatGPT – you'll find the Apple Music extension there. Once connected, the extension remains active across your devices signed into the same ChatGPT account.

One More Thing

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Apple Music extension in ChatGPT's "Apps" section​

ChatGPT can search Apple Music's catalog and create playlists, but it can't access your listening history or existing playlists. The integration only has permission to add songs to your library, so your personal data stays private.

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I haven't been able to get this to work in the macOS app. Until it works there, it doesn't exist to me. Or maybe I should just make a web app with chatgpt.com, I dunno. I think I tried that and didn't like it for some reason.
 
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So it’s worth boiling the oceans for this very slight convenience? Seriously, all this AI stuff seems to do is introduce minuscule amounts of “improvement” that saves very little time at exceptionally high electricity costs and fresh water use.

I get using machine learning to solve complex scientific or engineering challenges, I get using it to assist in certain menial tasks, but unless you can do it on-device, without consuming vast resources, I want nothing to do with it
 
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Zapski said:
So it’s worth boiling the oceans for this very slight convenience? Seriously, all this AI stuff seems to do is introduce minuscule amounts of “improvement” that saves very little time at exceptionally high electricity costs and fresh water use.

I get using machine learning to solve complex scientific or engineering challenges, I get using it to assist in certain menial tasks, but unless you can do it on-device, without consuming vast resources, I want nothing to do with it
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You're on a website, using resources like energy, compute power, and more, to complain about using energy, compute power and more.
 
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You're on a website, using resources like energy, compute power, and more, to complain about using energy, compute power and more.
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AI uses astronomically more computer power, energy and resources, and it's not even close. It absolutely makes a difference by what you're doing.

It's like comparing the fuel mileage of a badly tuned carbureted v8 to a new Prius.
 
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As Apple users, we should fear cloud services. Cloud services are bad. Anything that runs locally is good for you and helps the company to save some money too on electricity too. Anyone who says this is wrong is also bad and you should never listen to them. Settle for less, save your private data.
 
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I really hope all these ChatGPT integrations are like the first iOS Maps app that used Apple's UI and Google's API for map data, where eventually Apple will have enough end to end data to make a better solution.
 
I am using the MacOS ChatGPT app and I was successful in creating a playlist and getting it to appear in Apple Music (the link to save to Apple Music appeared at the *bottom* of the playlist). But when I asked ChatGPT to revise the playlist, it did so in ChatGPT but I couldn't find a button or link to send the updated playlist to Apple Music.

Is there a short "How To" video? There is a playlist I have wanted to make for ages and after all my searching there isn't one like what I want already in Apple Music, so this feature would be very useful to me.

As to the discussion about water and electricity usage, I feel this is a transitional cost as we move to a new capability. It wouldn't surprise me at all if in a fairly short time breakthroughs happen than let AI like this - and more - run on far fewer or even minuscule resources. Remember when computers filled a room? I read an article a while back where Chinese researchers made an AI that could replicate with 99% accuracy ChatGPT's output but did so with a far smaller AI model. We will see what the future holds. I am willing to go along with AI in it's current form and resource requirements but it could be an issue for me if it becomes clear the future is the entire planet covered in server farms and all energy on the planet powering the AI. I just don't believe that is the future though.

UPDATE: I asked ChatGPT why the new playlist didn't have a link to Apple Music and it gave a clear explanation and solution. Short answer: It make the revised playlist in text since we were still refining/curating rather than working in the Apple Music tool. All I needed to do, once I have a list I liked, is type something like, "Create a new Apple Music playlist with the revised vibe." or even "Update the existing playlist." if I already "pushed" an earlier version.

UPDATE 2: Encountered more problems with pushing created playlists to Apple Music. The feature doesn't appear ready for prime-time IMHO. More like beta. ChatGPT said there were "technical issues" and it couldn't push songs to Apple Music after it had already done so successfully twice (so I am sure Apple Music and ChatGPT on my M4 MacBook Air are working properly).
 
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I used it to make a playlist of songs from my favorite radio station in the 80s. It did a decent job, but with some errors. I imagine it will get better. I would love to see this integrated directly into Apple Music when Apple Intelligence gets better. God, did I really type that. Not holding my breath.
 
Sometimes I like to make playlists from gym classes I do - I pasted the song list in and ChatGPT and it put all the songs into a playlist for me saving me doing it manually - worked pretty well I thought!
 
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AI uses astronomically more computer power, energy and resources, and it's not even close. It absolutely makes a difference by what you're doing.

It's like comparing the fuel mileage of a badly tuned carbureted v8 to a new Prius.
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And this site is scraped by AI, so you're just giving it more to feed on.
 
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