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Spotify has just added a robot DJ into the fold.

The Artificially Intelligent song-spinner with a “stunningly realistic” voice is designed to queue up music based on your musical tastes and listening history to give you a radio-like Spotify experience.

The DJ, called X after Xavier Jernigan, the head of cultural partnerships and host at Spotify who provided his own voice for the AI to model, uses a combination of personalisation technology and generative AI to play your curated playlists.

This is all done with technology from OpenAI – the company behind ChatGPT chatbot.

The AI DJ is like a twist on Spotify’s other personalised-listening features, like its Daily Mix and Discovery Weekly auto-generated playlists.

The only difference is that now you don’t have to choose which one to listen to, and the AI voice adds commentary curated by Spotify’s music experts, notes Mashable:

The tag line of the new feature is “Just hit play and let Spotify do the rest”; when you do so, the DJ cycles through different themed short collections of songs that balance familiar and new music. These mini playlists are based on your own “Recent listening” as well as “Editors picks,” “Throwbacks,” “Recommended for you,” and “Your past.”

Songs also tend to be organised by genre or vibe, and just like a human DJ, Spotify’s DJ provides insight about the tracks and artists it’s playing:

Pretty proud of the @Spotify team for this one – a generative, expressive and realistic AI DJ that delivers a personalized lineup of music and commentary to each user, for all those times you don’t know exactly what you want to hear. Hope you like it! 🎧 https://t.co/4PwXKUW0Cl

— Gustav Söderström (@GustavS) February 22, 2023

Unfortunately for Saffas, it is currently only available to Premium users in the US and Canada:

To use Spotify’s AI DJ, open the app and select the “music” tab. Then tap anywhere on the DJ card, the large blue rectangle. To switch up the theme of the music the DJ is playing, tap the circular icon in the bottom right-hand corner.

Watch this video of Spotify introducing DJ X:

Let the good times roll in…for South African Spotify users next.

[source:mashable]