Spotify has quietly launched a tool that lets you create unique AI-generated art for your playlists. Customizing your music playlists is more fun and interesting with this easy-to-use feature that you can access via the web or mobile app.
Curious to see what artwork will spawn from the songs you like? Here's how to use Spotify's AI tool to create playlist art.
Spotify Lets You Use AI to Create Playlist Art
Spotify has added a feature that lets you use AI to generate artwork for your playlist cover. At the time of writing, it's available to users in Australia and New Zealand, the likely reason being that Spotify wants to trial the feature before rolling it out to everybody else.
The AI art tool aims to offer a fun and interesting way to customize the look of your playlists. Normally, the display image is made up of various album art selected from the songs inside your playlist.
To try the feature, click the "AI Playlist Art" banner that appears on the home screen on the mobile app. Alternatively, you can test the feature on a desktop by heading to the Spotify Playlist Art webpage.
How Spotify's AI Playlist Art Works
Similar to how AI art generators like Midjourney, DALL-E, or Stable Diffusion work, the Spotify AI playlist art tool chooses a single song from your selected playlist and creates a text prompt based on the features of that track. In turn, this is used to generate an image.
Curiously, according to Spotify's FAQs, the "acoustic levels and energy of the track" are two features used to influence the look of the art. These terms are vague, so it's anyone's guess as to what exactly the AI model analyzes, which could be anything from decibel level to compression to volume peaks, etc.
Each artwork is unique, and you can choose to generate a new image if you don't like it. But be careful; you can't go back to an old image if you decide you like it better.
If you want to save the artwork you generate along the way, we suggest taking a screenshot of each image. Later, you can upload a custom Spotify playlist artwork using one of these screenshots.
How to Create AI Playlist Art on Spotify
Using Spotify's AI art tool is straightforward and can be done in the mobile or web app. Here's how you can use it to create custom AI-generated art for your playlist.
- On the mobile app, click on the "AI Playlist Art" banner that appears in the Home tab. Alternatively, on a desktop, you can head to the Spotify Playlist Art webpage.3 Images
- Next, click Start Creating. This will prompt you to read the terms and conditions. To continue, click Agree.
- A list of your playlists will appear next. Click the Create Art button beside the playlist of your choice.
- After a moment, a newly generated artwork will appear. If you like the look of it and want to use it for your playlist, click Apply to Playlist or click Share to post it to your social media.
- To generate a different artwork, click the re-do arrow icon located in the top right corner of the artwork.
- If you want to remove the AI artwork, click on the three dots underneath your playlist image in the mobile app, then select Edit playlist > Change image > Remove photo.
Customize Your Spotify Playlist With AI Art
Have some fun customizing your Spotify playlist by using the AI playlist art tool. Images are created by analyzing a song from your chosen playlist and using its unique features to create a prompt for an AI artwork. The results are one of a kind. If you don't like what you get, you can always generate a new image or set the image back to the default.