'Spotify Wrapped' Recaps Your Listening History for 2024 Using AI Hosts

[MacRumors]

Spotify has made its annual recap feature "Spotify Wrapped" available to users on the iOS and Android app. This feature tracks your top artists, genres, songs, podcasts, and minutes listened, and generates graphics for sharing on social media.

This year's Spotify Wrapped has a distinctly AI-driven twist: The company has partnered with Google to leverage its note-taking assistant NotebookLM, which can generate a podcast featuring two artificial hosts that discuss the user's research. In Spotify, the hosts wax lyrical on your top songs, artists, and genre choices for the year.

"Your Wrapped AI Podcast" is available to both free and Premium users in the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, and Sweden.

Spotify Wrapped also now includes a feature to chart how your musical preferences evolved over the year. For each month it assigns up to three descriptive musical themes, such as "heatwave" or "beach." Additionally, the app creates a personalized “music evolution” playlist, blending your favorite tracks from the year with new songs curated to match your tastes.

Meanwhile, if you're a Premium subscriber, you can create playlists based on your listening habits by prompting Spotify's AI DJ. Other additions this year include the longest listening streak for your top five artists, and an update to the share button that shows whether the audio being shared is in your top 100 songs, top 20 artists, or top five podcasts.

Apple Music's equivalent annual recap, Apple Music Replay, was launched on Tuesday for subscribers to the streaming service.

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[wanha]

No thanks. Nope. Uhuh.

Life is way too short to spend a single minute of it listening to generic AI slop on any topic.

 

[Lurch92]

I can't say it felt meaningfully different to any other year, except for a two exceptions:

1. The graphics felt repetitive between pages, making it feel slow paced and I felt like I wanted to skip though it.
2. There was less detailed info than other years.

 

[contacos]

I can't say it felt meaningfully different to any other year, except for a two exceptions:

1. The graphics felt repetitive between pages, making it feel slow paced and I felt like I wanted to skip though it.
2. There was less detailed info than other years.

Well said. I couldn't quite put my finger on it since my music taste hasn't really changed but it felt like something was missing

 

[robvalentine]

Not sure if it was because I listened to the daily mixes alot mopre this year, but my top songs aren't songs I really remember playing alot.

The top artists list made sense though

 

[phenste]

very ready to watch Gen Z lose its f—king mind over this on social media LMAO

maybe kids will wise up and switch over to the service that pays artists more! wild to me that Spotify became the “cool” music streaming service but I’ve heard enough times over the years that its algorithmic playlists are better than AM. they’re getting too cocky though, kids f/w AI in a very fickle way and this crosses into the “extremely creepy” territory for them. will come back to this thread if stan twitter has any good memes (don’t ask or try to Google what that is if you don’t know, save yourself 😂)

 

[robvalentine]

very ready to watch Gen Z lose its f—king mind over this on social media LMAO

maybe kids will wise up and switch over to the service that pays artists more! wild to me that Spotify became the “cool” music streaming service but I’ve heard enough times over the years that its algorithmic playlists are better than AM. they’re getting too cocky though, kids f/w AI in a very fickle way and this crosses into the “extremely creepy” territory for them. will come back to this thread if stan twitter has any good memes (don’t ask or try to Google what that is if you don’t know, save yourself 😂)

Spotify is a lot better if you have non apple devices. And Spotify connect is amazing.

I do use both as I think apples album organisation is a lot better, and for £6 a month I get Apple Music and apple tv under a student discount so I can’t complain.

 

[Jeeg]

I use Spotify because the UI is better than Apple Music thats all, and streaming on Apple music generally has a buffer when you go between songs despite having 10Gbps fiber internet.

 

[FloatingBones]

Spotify with Google? Really? Who do they sell this AI-curated listening history to? Yuk! #includemeout

 

[cyb3rdud3]

It was absolutely spot on for me Love this from Spotify!

 

[dominiongamma]

I use Spotify because the UI is better than Apple Music thats all, and streaming on Apple music generally has a buffer when you go between songs despite having 10Gbps fiber internet.

the UI is a clutter mess which I hate, and a lot of of music I still can’t find on Spotify years later that I can easily on Apple Music

 

[LordSandaime]

I use Spotify because the UI is better than Apple Music thats all, and streaming on Apple music generally has a buffer when you go between songs despite having 10Gbps fiber internet.

Based on the cluster-fuggle of a UI that’s highlighted in this article I have a hard time believing that.

 

[Phat^Trance]

hm odd, not showing up, either on my ios app or my desktop mac app!

 

[dustin_]

the kids on tiktok and twitter are not happy with this AI slop

 

[glindon]

Listening to two fake AI podcast hosts talk about my listening habits sounds cringe AF, let’s be honest here. Complete and utter AI slop.

 

[chris1958]

My top-song according to Spotify I don' remember listen to it on purpose. It was probably added by some algorithm to my "made for you"-playlists several times. This makes the Spotify algorithms self-confirming.

 

[rm5]

Spotify Wrapped is almost always inaccurate. This year was certainly no different. I don't even really get the point of it, other than to share on social media what Spotify thinks are your top artists, genres, songs, etc. Only you can make that judgement.

 

[cyb3rdud3]

My top-song according to Spotify I don' remember listen to it on purpose. It was probably added by some algorithm to my "made for you"-playlists several times. This makes the Spotify algorithms self-confirming.

My guess would be that you’ve not had many listening minutes in total. It does not do this based on a track or artist being on a playlist. You need to be listening. Perhaps you share your account with someone? Or it’s in a car, or Sonos at work. Something like that.

 

[kurtfoster]

Yawn…

 

[Lynxpoint]

I can't say it felt meaningfully different to any other year, except for a two exceptions:

1. The graphics felt repetitive between pages, making it feel slow paced and I felt like I wanted to skip though it.
2. There was less detailed info than other years.

Agreed. I miss the recap of genres - I found that entertaining, far more than "you listened to this song the most".

 

[svish]

Don't use Spotify. Some may find this AI hosted podcast interesting. I prefer the normal recap feature. But interesting to see new ideas.

 

[israndy]

My top-song according to Spotify I don' remember listen to it on purpose. It was probably added by some algorithm to my "made for you"-playlists several times. This makes the Spotify algorithms self-confirming.

Totally don't remember EVER hearing but one of my top 5 songs of the year. And 2000+ hours of listening? Where was that playing? I think I listened to maybe 5 albums all year.