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If you are like me, you spent a lot of time creating playlists for different occasions. Studying, going to the gym, throwing a house party, they all require different playlists with different moods. Playlistable offers a quicker way to do this using generative AI. You can give a short description and a genre, and Playlistable will generate a playlist for you. You can even connect it to your Spotify account, and then it can gain insight into your listening history, and you can instantly add the playlist to your account. I tried to generate two different types of playlists.

First, I used the prompt “studying for a long time for an important test”, with “electronic” as the genre. I think the ai got a little bit confused, because the start of the playlist was comprised of songs I added recently, but in my opinion do not really fit my description. But after 20 or so songs the playlist is comprised of songs the match the description I gave very well. I did not know a lot of the songs, but after listening to it for a while, I actually like that part of the playlist a lot.

My second prompt was “revisiting old classics” with “Rock”. This prompt worked out better than the first one. It looks like it consists entirely of classic Rock songs. Some of these I have little to a lot, others I have never heard before, so I think it mixed my listening history with other similar songs. I will share the link to this playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3UH1B7kE21aElDQkDsVVbV?si=750c06a4b5014748

I think this is a very useful tool. You can quickly generate playlists with just a short description and start using them immediately. It is a shame you only get a few trial playlists before you must start paying.

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Even music, one of the most innately human things, is able to be generated by AI now. SoundDraw is an AI music generator that can be used to create music. It is limited to instrumental music for now, there are no options for generating vocals. There are many customizable options like genre, mood, tempo, length, and instruments. Using these options, a variety of tracks is created. After generating you can still make some changes to the segments.

In my experience the quality of the songs varied quite a lot. Some songs were interesting, most of them quite bland, and quite a few of the songs sound off or weird. The AI does manage to get the basics of the genre correct most of the time, but there have been some hiccups here and there like rock songs with just synthesizers and techno without any bass. The keywords that are used to describe the mood were mostly just plain incorrect in my experience. If you asked me to describe the mood of a song, I would often have given a different answer than the attached keywords.
This tool could be very useful for background music in videos and advertisements, but the quality does not come anywhere near human musicians or producers. The tool is marketed and licensed as background music in their subscription plans. I think tools like this could compete with the libraries of royalty free background music that are the standard for background music at the moment.

Since generative AI does not actually generate any truly new ideas, you might be wondering about the originality of the songs. The songs might start too similar to existing artists which could lead to licensing issues. SoundDraw has addressed this issue by training their AI on their own datasets that have been made by their own producers.

Ultimately, I think that AI generated music will not go much further than background music in the near future. I encourage you to try the tool for yourself and see for yourself what it has to offer.