One of the great things about the music streaming revolution is that we’ll never run out of music. You’ll never finish listening to the tens of millions of songs in Spotify’s catalog. But you can spend the rest of your life listening to brand new music.
All these choices can also make it difficult to figure out what you should actually queue up next in your playlist. Still, Spotify has a lot of features to help you, and you might not realize how many ways to discover new music on the platform. These are the best.
1) Ask the AI to make a playlist
We’ll start with one of Spotify’s newest features – AI playlists. It is a mobile app only for advanced users. It takes text prompts (from bots like ChatGPT) and converts them into custom playlists.
So you might be asking for a list of songs that you’ve never heard of, but that sums up the American rock scene in the early 90s. Alternatively, you can request a track for your night jog. from your library tab, click + (plus sign) icon and select Artificial Intelligence Playlist from the list.
2) Browse through your daily mixes
Open the home screen of the Spotify app or web player, and you’ll see that the streaming service offers you a variety of daily mixes. These cover various aspects of your music listening history and are often themed around a specific artist or genre of music.
Click on any mix to start listening – you should hear a mix of new content and music you’ve heard. If you hear something you like, save it to another playlist as your daily mix will be refreshed over the next 24 hours.
3) Create mixes with friends
Recommendations from friends are a great way to discover new music, and while we may not have mixtapes anymore, we do have Spotify’s Blend feature. It combines your tastes with other people’s tastes in a playlist that can be shared.
In the desktop app, click the search box at the top of the screen and select built for you and Create a blend start. Then, through invite Links you can choose to click on to get music recommendations from others (you can You can invite up to 10 people).
4) Use AI DJ
Another option provided by AI: If you click the search box at the top of the desktop app interface and select built for you and DJyou’ll get a custom mix of old and new songs curated by AI (complete with DJ-like commentary between songs).
If the content that appears is not to your liking, you can always click the DJ button to the right of the playback controls to let the AI choose other content. It works better than expected, including AI chat, but it’s exclusive to premium users.
5) Find playlists made by others
If you’ve been immersed in your Spotify library, you might not have noticed. Still, many people who use streaming platforms publish public playlists for other listeners to queue up – which can be a very useful way to discover new tracks you’ve never heard before.
Click the search box at the top of the desktop app interface and search for anything you like. It can be an artist, a genre, a decade, a mood or anything you like. choose playlist Below, scroll down to see some remixes from the Spotify community.
6) Add to your current playlist
Load any playlist in the Spotify desktop interface, scroll down to the bottom, and you should see a list of recommended tracks added to the end of the playlist – songs based on the currently selected artist, genre, and mood.
Some of the tracks will be drawn from your existing Spotify library, but you’ll also encounter some new content. It works well because the songs selected will match what you’ve already selected, so extra songs don’t ruin the mood of your playlist.
7) Discover new music every week
You may be missing out on all Spotify has to offer, but it produces a playlist of 30 new songs every Monday. They’re all tracks you’ve never heard before, and all picks are based on what you’ve heard.
This is one of the oldest ways to discover new music on Spotify, and it’s still one of the best. As with daily mixes, if you come across something you like, remember to save it to your library or other playlist before refreshing the recommended mixes.
