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Spotify Now Plays Personal Podcasts Generated by Your AI Agent

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Spotify has launched a new feature that lets users save AI-generated audio briefings called Personal Podcasts directly to their Spotify library. It uses a new command-line tool for desktop that works with AI coding agents like OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code.

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After you install the Save to Spotify CLI from GitHub and sign into your Spotify account, you can prompt the agent to generate a custom audio piece, like a daily news digest, a study guide pulled from class notes, or a weekly itinerary. Once generated, it appears alongside your music and regular podcasts in Your Library.

Here's how Spotify frames it. From the company's newsroom post:
People are already starting to use their agents to create personal audio that guides their day: from summaries of class notes before an exam to briefings of what's on their calendar. And they're asking for a way to listen to it on Spotify, where they already listen to everything else.

Now, we're making it possible to save and play Personal Podcasts on Spotify. Your agent can generate a daily briefing, private to you, and it's saved alongside everything else in Your Library. And as always with Spotify, it's seamlessly integrated across the devices you use.
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Spotify offers a few use case examples to get you started, such as a morning briefing that flags upcoming meetings, checks the weather, and recommends a commute podcast, or a progressively deeper audio series built from saved articles and personal notes for learning a new subject.

The feature remains in beta but is available worldwide to eligible Free and Premium subscribers, though Spotify cautions that there are usage limits during the testing period.

The CLI tool launch follows Spotify's release last month of a Claude integration that lets users connect their Spotify account to the chatbot and ask for personalized music and podcast recommendations directly in a conversation.

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Gee, it really looks like running AI agents is the cool new thing that everyone is doing. I should probably get on board.

...and the tone of that sentence is "parent talking to toddler's new imaginary friend"
 
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Spotify has launched a new feature that lets users save AI-generated audio briefings called Personal Podcasts directly to their Spotify library. It uses a new command-line tool for desktop that works with AI coding agents like OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code.

General-Spotify-Feature.jpg

After you install the Save to Spotify CLI from GitHub and sign into your Spotify account, you can prompt the agent to generate a custom audio piece, like a daily news digest, a study guide pulled from class notes, or a weekly itinerary. Once generated, it appears alongside your music and regular podcasts in Your Library.

Here's how Spotify frames it. From the company's newsroom post:
Spotify offers a few use case examples to get you started, such as a morning briefing that flags upcoming meetings, checks the weather, and recommends a commute podcast, or a progressively deeper audio series built from saved articles and personal notes for learning a new subject.

The feature remains in beta but is available worldwide to eligible Free and Premium subscribers, though Spotify cautions that there are usage limits during the testing period.

The CLI tool launch follows Spotify's release last month of a Claude integration that lets users connect their Spotify account to the chatbot and ask for personalized music and podcast recommendations directly in a conversation.

Article Link: Spotify Now Plays Personal Podcasts Generated by Your AI Agent
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I don’t subscribe to Apple services except the $1/mo iCloud thing … but I did switch from Spotify to Apple Music recently, and this further solidifies my decision. If Apple eventually starts putting AI slop into their Music app, I will again look elsewhere. Or, just stop music subs altogether. The last thing people need is AI slop in their ears like this.
 
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Or, listen to the free daily briefing by a human from NYT, WSJ, WP, BBC, Fox, Apple News, whatever floats your boat. I get that it won't read your emails or calendar events to you, but it will surface topics you probably didn't write a prompt to hear about. I'm an AI enthusiast and optimist, but I will take Hannah Jewell recap "the 7" news stories every morning (it takes 10 mins), where she adds her own flavor and jokes, an editor helps curate the stories, etc. — over a lifeless AI summary.
 
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turbineseaplane said:
I really don't understand the people that want "AI-generated audio briefings".

What a strange world we live in now.
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I'm one of those people. Let's say I have 4-6 items on my calendar for any given day. It would be lovely if I could receive an audio briefing of everything on my schedule while I took a walk around my development. Familiarize myself with what I've got to get accomplished that day. Although, I already use Claude's Scheduled Tasks to automate away a ton of clerical work. After it's done I check the outcomes and respond to anything that needs my attention. Those pretty much act like my morning briefings so this Spotify feature might be redundant for me. But overall this is very neat use case for Spotify & Ai.
 
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I'm one of those people. Let's say I have 4-6 items on my calendar for any given day. It would be lovely if I could receive an audio briefing of everything on my schedule while I took a walk around my development. Familiarize myself with what I've got to get accomplished that day. Although, I already use Claude's Scheduled Tasks to automate away a ton of clerical work. After it's done I check the outcomes and respond to anything that needs my attention. Those pretty much act like my morning briefings so this Spotify feature might be redundant for me. But overall this is very neat use case for Spotify & Ai.
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Appreciate the reply. 🙏

I'm truly aging out on some of this stuff.
I just don't want to live this way, but to each our own!

Cheers 👍
 
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GfPQqmcRKUvP said:
Strange. It's the exact idea of a podcast except personalized.
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I dunno. I've had a really bad time with AI doing good research for me that doesn't breakdown by the fourth or fifth interaction. I'm really trying to give AI a go, btw, and I'm not hating on it just for the fun. (I do read Ed Zitron's substack, but more for the contrarian perspective to round out viewpoints.) Gemini has been better than ChatGPT or Copilot (essentially ChatGPT, I know). Contrast that with a tried-and-true reporting show like The Daily or Acquired or an audiobook (all things I'm a fan of, as means to inform my thinking and opinions), and I just don't see what benefit this service provides.

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I'm one of those people. Let's say I have 4-6 items on my calendar for any given day. It would be lovely if I could receive an audio briefing of everything on my schedule while I took a walk around my development. Familiarize myself with what I've got to get accomplished that day. Although, I already use Claude's Scheduled Tasks to automate away a ton of clerical work. After it's done I check the outcomes and respond to anything that needs my attention. Those pretty much act like my morning briefings so this Spotify feature might be redundant for me. But overall this is very neat use case for Spotify & Ai.
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This is exactly what I've always hoped the "New Siri" would do. "Hey Siri, tell me about my day." "You've got [these events going on], and the weather looks like this, and I saw in your Notes that you had a client follow-up mentioned for today but you never set a reminder or a calendar item." Like, that would be so cool but I'm loosing confidence it's coming anytime soon.
 
ryanbattles said:
Or, listen to the free daily briefing by a human from NYT, WSJ, WP, BBC, Fox, Apple News, whatever floats your boat. I get that it won't read your emails or calendar events to you, but it will surface topics you probably didn't write a prompt to hear about. I'm an AI enthusiast and optimist, but I will take Hannah Jewell recap "the 7" news stories every morning (it takes 10 mins), where she adds her own flavor and jokes, an editor helps curate the stories, etc. — over a lifeless AI summary.
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You could customize it to avoid all celebrity gossip topics, all mentions of the current us president, so that it’s a news summary only focusing on actual important issues.
 
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abowlby said:
Just so you know, your pfp is a "Memoji."
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And you'll be pleased to know that Memojis are not LLM-generated content, but are CNNs trained with supervised regression and landmark estimation, which is a technology which has been around for decades now (biometric passports have been issued since 2000 or so).
 
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And you'll be pleased to know that Memojis are not LLM-generated content, but are CNNs trained with supervised regression and landmark estimation, which is a technology which has been around for decades now (biometric passports have been issued since 2000 or so).
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I think he was pointing out the hypocrisy of someone saying that all AI is just "inexorable slop" while using a Memoji.
 
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