GoKawiilYouTube Music adds AI chat search and weekly podcast recommendations
YouTube unveiled two AI features for YouTube Music at its Made On YouTube event: Ask Music, a conversational search tool covering over 300 million songs including remixes and live versions, and Your Podcast Lineup, a personalized weekly audio guide highlighting recommended podcasts and episodes. Ask Music lets users type natural-language requests, like building a mix based on a song's influences or asking who played on a track, instead of searching by title or artist.
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The move suggests YouTube is trying to make music and podcast discovery feel more like a conversation than a search, potentially increasing engagement time on the app. It also mirrors Spotify's recent AI-driven podcast recommendation feature, indicating a broader industry push toward AI as the primary interface for content discovery across streaming platforms.
- Ask Music enables natural-language search and Q&A across YouTube Music's 300M+ song catalog.
- Your Podcast Lineup offers weekly AI-generated spoken previews explaining podcast recommendations.
- The features echo Spotify's own AI podcast personalization tools, signaling a competitive trend in audio discovery.
Source: techcrunch.com — Lauren Forristal, 2026-09-23
Published there as: “YouTube Music gets more conversational with new AI features”
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