YouTube Music and Deezer have introduced new AI features

Music streaming services YouTube Music and Deezer have joined Spotify and Amazon Music in the race to integrate new AI services.

Radio station and Shazam from YouTube Music

YouTube Music has introduced two new tools, TechCrunch reports:

• Conversational radio function using AI;
• Shazam analogue.

The first feature allows you to create your own radio station by describing desired songs. Requests can be like: ‘memorable pop choruses’ or ‘lively pop anthems’. The new functionality is available to some YouTube Premium users in the USA. In the future, it will be opened to a larger number of people, expanding the geography

The second tool is a Shazam analog. Users can hum or play a snippet of a song and find the original. Humming is a unique feature of the new YouTube service, as Shazam only allows you to search for the song title by its snippet. The tool first became available to some Android users earlier this year, and now it has been opened to everyone with iOS and Android.

AI playlists from Deezer

French music streaming service Deezer has launched ‘Playlist with AI’ - a feature that creates playlists based on AI prompts. 5% of paid subscribers will have access to the beta test of this new tool.

Users can create playlists using written prompts describing moods, genres, year, activity type, and other variables. For example, you can ask Deezer to create a playlist like “early 2000s pop-rock for workout” or “upbeat 2010s for study session”.

“We are pleased to introduce this AI-based feature to Deezer users worldwide. Whether you need the perfect musical composition for a workout, a romantic evening, or a nostalgic journey into the past, our ‘Playlist with AI’ feature will create a new musical experience in seconds and provide endless possibilities for easy discovery of new music,” commented the company’s vice president of product, Alexandra Leloup.

Deezer uses AI to enhance user experience and recommendations. The Deezer Flow feature for creating mixes applies artificial intelligence, and the Shazam-like SongCatcher also operates on a neural network basis.

Spotify and Amazon Music are pioneers in AI

Other music services are already using AI. In April, the streaming service Spotify introduced the beta version of a new AI Playlist feature, which allows users to create playlists based on prompts. In addition to standard genre or era requests, the platform uses neural networks to create a wider range of music selections.

In the same month, Amazon Music announced a similar service called Maestro - a playlist generator using AI based on prompts. Initially, it became available in the USA on iOS and Android.

🆕 A playlist perfectly catered to your mood? Even for crying 😭 and eating pasta🍝? Meet Maestro: Our #AI playlist generator that helps you create any playlist you can think of (plus the ones you can’t).

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• Amazon News (@amazonnews) April 16, 2024

Recall that in May, Spotify deleted thousands of AI-generated tracks, which amounts to ‘tens of thousands’ of songs.