YouTube announced two new AI-powered features for YouTube Music at its Made On YouTube event. The first, Ask Music, is a conversational tool that lets users type requests in everyday language instead of searching for specific songs or artists. It works across the platform's catalog of more than 300 million songs, including official recordings, remixes, live performances, covers, and DJ sets, and can build custom listening queues or answer questions about a track's creation.
The second feature, Your Podcast Lineup, is a personalized audio guide that appears on the podcast page in the YouTube Music app. Each week it delivers a short spoken preview of recommended shows, explains why they might appeal to the listener, and can move directly into suggested episodes. YouTube designed the feature to address the problem of podcast overload, where listeners struggle to keep up with new episodes from shows they already follow.
The updates are part of YouTube's broader push to integrate AI across its services, following last year's experiment with AI-powered music hosts that provided stories and commentary. Spotify recently introduced a similar AI-generated personal podcasts feature, so the two streaming rivals are moving in the same direction. Both YouTube features are scheduled to roll out soon to YouTube Music and YouTube Premium subscribers worldwide. The source is a single TechCrunch report, so no independent confirmation or contrasting details are available. [1]