For YouTube Music listeners who need the beauty of playlist art to accompany their music, the streaming app offers a solution.
On Tuesday, the Google-owned service announced AI capabilities for customizing playlist art as part of a suite of features focused on personalization.
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YouTube Music users can now use generative AI to design custom artwork through a guided experience directly on their playlist pages. Previously, the playlist artwork displayed a grid of her four album covers within the playlist. By tapping on the editing tools below the artwork, users can browse through themes such as landscapes, animals, and travel to find the right visuals, and use a variety of text prompts and art styles such as pop art and medieval gothic. You can select and fine-tune. When you find artwork that fits the mood of your playlist, click Save and enjoy!
The AI-generated playlist art is currently only available in the US and in English, but will be rolled out to other regions and languages ​​around the world.
Recently, YouTube Music rolled out new features in line with other apps and services that leverage AI for customizable experiences. This includes a TikTok-style vertical swipe experience that shows samples, teasers of new songs to discover, integrated comments to add to conversations on YouTube Music, and radio stations that build sessions around specific musicians, styles, and moods. Contains a “tuner”. . Along with other apps and services that leverage AI to create customizable experiences, a “Speed ​​Dial” module featuring the most commonly listened to music on the homepage is also coming soon. According to the announcement, this feature will be available in the coming months.
Spotify, YouTube Music’s main competitor, has also released AI features such as “AI DJ” and automatic translation of podcasts into different languages.