YouTube Music Adds 2 AI Discovery Tools Across 300 Million Songs
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Updated · TechCrunch · Sep 23
YouTube Music Adds 2 AI Discovery Tools Across 300 Million Songs
2 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Sep 23
Summary
YouTube Music unveiled two AI features—Ask Music and Your Podcast Lineup—at its Made on YouTube event, with a global rollout coming soon for YouTube Music and YouTube Premium subscribers.
Ask Music lets users describe what they want in everyday language instead of searching track by track, then builds queues or answers questions across a catalog of more than 300 million songs.
Your Podcast Lineup tackles podcast overload with a weekly AI-generated spoken guide on the app’s podcast page, previewing recommended shows, explaining the fit, and leading into suggested episodes.
Spotify has moved in a similar direction with AI-generated personalized podcast episodes, underscoring a broader race to use AI for audio discovery.
The launch extends YouTube’s wider AI push in music after last year’s tests of AI hosts that added stories, trivia and commentary around what listeners were playing.