YouTube adds Ask Music and Podcast Lineup AI features to Music app
YouTube announced two new AI-powered tools for its Music service at the Made On YouTube event. "Ask Music" lets users type natural‑language requests to create custom listening queues, learn details about songs, or explore an artist’s background, drawing from a catalog of more than 300 million tracks. The second feature, "Your Podcast Lineup," delivers a weekly AI‑generated audio guide that…
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- Ask Music lets users request songs or mixes in natural language across 300 million tracks.
- Your Podcast Lineup provides a weekly AI‑generated audio preview of recommended podcasts.
- Both features roll out soon to YouTube Music and YouTube Premium subscribers worldwide.
Both updates will be built into the YouTube Music app and roll out soon for YouTube Music and YouTube Premium subscribers worldwide. The moves follow YouTube’s broader push to embed conversational AI across its services, echoing similar experiments such as AI‑driven music hosts and Spotify’s recent personal podcasts feature.
YouTube Music gets more conversational with new AI features
TechCrunch AI · 23 September 2026
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