YouTube Music is enhancing its AI capabilities with new features that give users more control over their music discovery experience. Building on last year’s Ask Music introduction, the platform now allows Premium subscribers to fine-tune AI-generated playlists through natural language prompts, making music exploration more interactive and customizable across several English-speaking markets.
The big picture: YouTube Music is expanding its AI-powered personalization features with the ability to tune AI radio playlists, Gemini-generated playlist titles, and enhanced customization options for playlist artwork.
Key details: Users can now refine Ask Music playlists with follow-up prompts like “more upbeat” or “just jazz songs” after initial generation.
- The feature is currently available for YouTube Music Premium subscribers in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Ireland.
- Users can either select from suggested prompts or type their own requests to update their generated radio playlists in real-time.
New personalization features: YouTube Music is introducing several complementary improvements to enhance the user experience.
- Gemini-powered My Mix titles now reflect the overall mood of personalized playlists, making browsing and playback faster for US Premium subscribers.
- Android users can now upload custom playlist thumbnails, with iOS support coming in the next few months.
- Two new AI-generated playlist artwork themes—”Workout” and “Instruments”—join the existing collection of visual options.
Why this matters: These enhancements represent YouTube Music’s ongoing strategy to differentiate itself through AI-powered personalization, creating a more interactive music discovery experience that responds to natural language input.
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