Using AI to Rapidly Generate a Playlist

This weekend I was at my daughter’s dance recital and noticed some music I would like for the work day. While doing technical or involved work, I like music without words that is not too distracting. I love jazz, but find it taking my mind off my work often, so I listen to lofi, chillhop, or classical. Some of the music was very classical based, but new. Strong strings or piano, but with modern beats. I used shazaam on a song I was curious about.

Fast forward to today, I’m doing some coding work on an idea I have on my day off. No, I won’t work all memorial day, but my family is sleeping in and I have some time. So I thought I’d see if AI could help me. Here was my prompt:

I like a genre of music that I struggle to name. Modern music that has a classical feel. Sometimes a bit of a modern or hip hot beat. Piano or string based. An example of this would be Jody Gwin’s “They don’t care about us”.

Please:
1. come up with a suitable name for this genre
2. search for similar music, 30-100 songs
3. Create a playlist named after step 1 that I can download for import into amazon music

The AI did this in markdown. I pointed out that I needed something that could be imported. It did point me to a service I could use for Amazon music, called Soundiiz. The AI didn’t know that it could import m3u, so it suggested csv.

The csv it created ended up successful for 29 of almost 100 songs. I’m not sure how much of that is on the AI, and how much is amazon music being picky about song and artist names. Many of the names include accents, etc. Things that may be finicky.

Still, in the end, I created a playlist with a lot of examples of the songs I wanted with a decent name “Neo Classical Fusion”. I can always explore the artists included to add more songs manually.

As is often cited, AI isn’t perfect, but it made this a faster task and got me off to a good start.