You Can Now Use AI to Create Spotify Playlist Cover Art

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.

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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.

A hand holding a phone displaying a song on Spotify

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 theSpotify Playlist Art webpage.

How Spotify’s AI Playlist Art Works

Similar to howAI art generators like Midjourney, DALL-E, or Stable Diffusionwork, 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 toSpotify’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.

Web screenshot of an AI-generated artwork in Spotify

Each artwork is unique, and it’s possible to 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 canupload a custom Spotify playlist artworkusing one of these screenshots.

Web screenshot of Spotify’s AI Playlist Art landing page

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 could use it to create custom AI-generated art for your playlist.

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.

Compiling your own Spotify playlists is fun! Learn how to create custom artwork for your Spotify playlists.

Mobile screenshot of Spotify Home screen displaying a banner for AI Playlist Art

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