Ask Music” is the name of the AI prompt-based conversational radio in YouTube Music, and it’s seeing wider availability, including internationally, in recent weeks.

The feature appears as a purple card in the Home feed, like Create a radio or the banner advertising the availability of the June – August 2024 recap. Tapping launches a fullscreen chat UI with accepted prompts ranging from a few words — 80s inspired indie, Dreamy synthpop, Saddest songs, etc. — to sentences.

After a few seconds, you get a playlist card with YTM translating that query into a shorter title and longer description. It auto-plays the first track by default with the ability to save to your library, and provide feedback.

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    2 months ago

    Cool! Yet another way to have Google loop the same 20 songs tangentially related to the artist I searched for without actually playing the artist I searched for.

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    2 months ago

    Is this what Google thinks people want than stuff like editing Playlist covers, removal of Samples, et al? I want my music player to be lean and simple, not a boggy useless mess.

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    2 months ago

    AI controlled music is legit a cool idea, just thumbs up or down the song it played to change it and show me new cool stuff.

    Except Google.

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      2 months ago

      AI controlled music is legit a cool idea, just thumbs up or down the song it played to change it and show me new cool stuff.

      Yeah.

      Except Google.

      Lol

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    2 months ago

    YouTube Music’s shuffle can’t even work right. What faith should I have in this AI?