Studio by Spotify Labs looks a little like ChatGPT moved into Spotify’s apartment and started rearranging the furniture. But it goes well beyond chatting about songs. This experimental AI assistant can pull listening stats, create personalized audio shows, organize an absolute disaster of a music library, research subjects, and even reorder playlists around your taste.
After putting Studio by Spotify Labs through several real tests, there are some genuinely useful ways to use it.
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How to Access Studio by Spotify Labs
You need a paid Spotify subscription, and as of the time of this writing, that alone still does not guarantee access. Studio by Spotify Labs is rolling out selectively, so some Premium accounts may see it while others do not. If it has landed in your account, Spotify should display a prompt inviting you to try Spotify Labs.
Once activated, open it through the small Studio icon in Spotify. The interface has a chat-style area, plus tabs for scheduled creations, ideas, and more.
One quick setup option that you should use: head to agent settings and give your assistant a name, adjust its language, and choose a voice. I named my AI “Peter.”
Get Spotify Wrapped Style Stats Whenever You Want
Spotify Wrapped is fun because it turns your listening habits into a little annual data party. With Studio by Spotify Labs, you can ask for that kind of information on demand instead of waiting for the end of the year.
Try a prompt like this:
“Provide a bullet-point list of interesting stats related to my music listening for this artist.”
In the test, Studio surfaced detailed stats for Highly Suspect, including total listening time, the most-played song, skip behavior, and other numbers that may cause some mild personal reflection. It also provided direct links to the tracks and artist pages mentioned, so you can jump straight into Spotify.
This is particularly useful if you want to create your own mini listening report around a favorite artist, genre, decade, or playlist. You could even copy and paste those stats into a separate AI tool like ChatGPT Image and turn them into charts or an infographic. Your own Spotify Wrapped, whenever you feel like exposing yourself to the facts.
Create a Daily Podcast Built Around Your Interests
The custom podcast feature is one of the more interesting things inside Studio by Spotify Labs. It can build a recurring audio briefing around topics you care about, then send the finished episode into Spotify for playback.
The example created here was called The Daily Dump. It was designed as a daily catch-up covering:
- AI news
- Arizona Diamondbacks updates
- Detroit Tigers updates
- Mexico City weather
To make one, tell Studio what you want covered, answer its follow-up questions, select a voice, name the show, and choose a schedule. You can also edit the prompt after creation to control the topics, writing style, tone, humor, and language.
The prompt in this test asked for facts with dry sarcasm, a little profanity, and some casual slang. The result actually followed those instructions. It delivered the weather, then added a line telling the listener to bring a jacket. Not Oscar Wilde, but not bad for a personalized robot morning radio host.
Important Scheduling Limitation
There is a small catch. For scheduled episodes to be generated, the Spotify app needs to remain open, and the computer needs to be active. There is a setting to keep the computer awake, but that also means your device is hanging around doing its thing instead of taking a nap.
Also, Studio does not appear to offer unlimited generations. The actual allowance was not clearly displayed during testing, so don’t assume you can generate 400 podcasts about ancient Rome, niche basketball stats, and your breakfast preferences without eventually meeting a limit.
Use Studio by Spotify Labs to Organize a Messy Music Library
This is probably the most practical use case in the whole tool. If your Spotify library is a landfill of random playlists, abandoned folders, and names like “New Playlist #135,” Studio can help tidy it up.
Select the Tidy up my library idea and let the assistant inspect your playlist structure. It identifies loose root-level playlists, folders with large numbers of playlists, and obvious clutter. Then it asks questions about how you want things organized.
In the test library, Studio found roughly 40 playlists sitting loose outside folders, along with large groups inside existing folders. After the cleanup process, the library had folders for everything. That is the kind of task that can take forever manually.
Before running it, take a minute to think about the folder system you actually want. For example:
- Work and Focus for concentration playlists
- Discovery for new artists and deep cuts
- Workout for gym, running, and sports playlists
- Moods and Events for parties, travel, sleep, and questionable late-night choices
Give Studio direction instead of asking it to vaguely “make things better.” A simple structure makes it far more likely that the result will stay useful after the initial cleanup. Or, you can just roll the dice and have it decide for you.
Make Better AI Playlists With More Specific Prompts
Spotify already has AI playlist tools in beta, and Studio by Spotify Labs can also help you build and manipulate playlists through natural-language requests. Generic prompts will get generic results, which is how you end up with another playlist called “Chill Vibes” containing songs you have heard 900 times.
Better prompts lead to better playlists. A few useful ideas include:
- Mix Everything: Create one randomized playlist that combines music from across your library.
- New Artist Finder: Find newer artists from the last few years who resemble older artists you already like.
- Electric Focus: Build an electronic playlist for work or study without distracting vocals.
- Deep Cut Finder: Find less obvious songs from artists you already enjoy, rather than the predictable hits.
If you want copy-and-paste starting points, grab these Spotify AI playlist prompts:
Edit them to fit your own awful taste in music.
Learn New Subjects Through Custom Audio Lessons
Another major feature of Studio by Spotify Labs is its ability to research a topic and turn it into a structured audio lesson or series. This is basically a personalized documentary podcast generator.
For the test, the request was to explain the history between Mexico and the United States over roughly 400 years, in an AI audio track. Studio asked a few calibration questions first, including how much background knowledge the learner had. The best answer, if you are starting fresh, is to say so. Pretending you already understand border history rarely improves the lesson.
After gathering the requirements, Studio researched the topic, wrote the script, generated supporting images, and produced a single long episode. The finished result was clear and easy to follow, starting with the U.S. entry into Mexico City in 1847 before moving through the larger story.
For students, this could be useful for topics in school, university, trade programs, or any subject that is easier to absorb through audio than another wall of browser tabs while chugging your next beer. Use it to supplement learning, not to replace your own thinking. AI is a tool, not a substitute brain. Your brain still needs occasional exercise.
One important warning: don’t assume generated audio can be repackaged and sold as your own commercial podcast or audio course. Check the applicable terms and laws, and put your own work into anything you intend to publish or sell. Nobody is lining up to buy low-effort AI content, which is not surprising.
Edit Any of Your Playlists Easily in Exciting Ways with AI
Editing an existing playlist is where Studio by Spotify Labs starts showing just how creative it can be. You can ask it to assess a playlist, rank songs by how much you are likely to enjoy them, and then reorder the playlist accordingly.
In the test, an existing “Unheard ’70s Gems” playlist was analyzed. Studio proposed a song order, then successfully rearranged the actual Spotify playlist to match it.
That may sound like a small feature until you have a 100-song playlist copied from someone else. You may like the overall direction, but not want to manually dig through every song to find the good stuff.
This is just one small example of the power. Get creative with this one, because now you have AI at your side to edit any and every playlist in your library in a fraction of the time.
Wrapping It Up
Studio by Spotify Labs is still experimental, selectively available, and a little rough around the edges here and there. It needs the app and computer active for scheduled jobs, it has generation limits that are not especially obvious, and the name is unnecessarily long. Somebody at Spotify definitely had access to shorter words, or maybe they just fired their marketing team and hired AI instead.
But the useful parts are very real. If Studio is available in your Spotify account, it is worth putting through a few practical tests before it becomes another neglected icon in the corner of your screen.
Add a comment in the comment section below with the first weird, useful, or ridiculously specific prompt you would try.
Until next time, remember to run the prompts and prompt the planet.
