Spotify: New desktop app creates personalized AI podcasts
Studio by Spotify Labs is a new desktop app that allows users to create personalized podcasts and briefings via an AI agent.
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Spotify has introduced Studio by Spotify Labs, a standalone desktop app that creates personalized podcasts, briefings, and playlists using an AI agent. The app, which is reminiscent of Google's NotebookLM, is set to be released as a preview in over 20 countries in the coming weeks.
In the Spotify blog, the company behind the streaming service writes that Studio analyzes listening habits from music, podcasts, and audiobooks and combines them with “general world knowledge.” With the user's consent, an integrated AI agent accesses calendars, inboxes, and notes and can independently research the web. Users can refine and adjust content in dialogue with the agent.
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As an example prompt, Spotify mentions creating a travel briefing: the agent should go through the daily schedule from the calendar, provide restaurant recommendations near the planned stops, and generate a podcast for the journey. All created content lands in the personal Spotify library and is not publicly accessible, but is synchronized across devices. Spotify points out that the AI agent can make mistakes and output unreliable content. Music is not generated with the program.
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Studio builds on a command-line tool that Spotify released in early May 2026 for users of AI programming tools like Claude Code, reports TechCrunch. With the desktop app, the company is opening up the same functionality to a broader audience. The format itself is not new: Google's NotebookLM has been offering AI-generated podcasts from individually selected source texts for a longer time. Adobe also offers a comparable tool in Acrobat that can convert PDF documents into podcasts.
Spotify has been increasingly integrating AI functions into its ecosystem for months; since last December, for example, users can create Spotify playlists via AI command. The preview of Studio by Spotify Labs is intended for selected premium users aged 18 and over. How these users will be selected is unclear. Spotify has not immediately responded to an inquiry from heise online.
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