Show HN: Hey, it's jams. ask me to make a Spotify playlist just for you. (AI)

[manikagg101]

Hey this looks nice! Created a couple of playlists!

I am curious to understand how personalisation is taking place? If I type a prompt 'generate soft music for me', how will the output be different for me compared to someone else who uses the same prompt.

I believe when I am typing the prompt, it has not connected with my Spotify hence will not give more personalised jam based on my liked songs.

Let me know if I am missing something in my understanding.

[ekatzenstein]

Thanks for the kind words!

Personalization is only based on your prompt. How unique the prompt is defines how unique the playlist is. On principle, we want users to volunteer their uniqueness rather than extract it by some other means.

Jams isn't about red tape, so we've avoided auth for now. We may add a "Connect with your Spotify" option later on so that a user can own the playlist that Jams created and edit to their liking. At that point it may be possible to connect personalized Spotify data (ie liked songs) to Jams' model, with user consent.

[beardyw]

Looks like it chooses artists based on prompt and then applies greatest hit. Am I right?

"1950s jazz" gave good results apart from Louis Armstrong singing What a Wonderful World" - neither 1950s nor jazz.

[ekatzenstein]

It may do greatest hits if you don't specify that you want something more obscure. Ultimately it's Jams' choice since he's the DJ

[Dig1t]

I did "songs about historical events"

and

"songs about explorers and conquerers" (something I've been into lately)

Neither was very good..

Seemed more to hit on the theme, but none of the songs were really "about" the things I asked for.

It did a good job with "pop punk with a little bit of metal and screamo" though.

[ekatzenstein]

Thanks for the feedback. Jams is currently using Chat GPT 3.5-turbo as his model (since v4 is currently cost-prohibitive). He may struggle with inferring the context.

I tried your prompts and agree that the playlists aren't getting after what I hear when I hear that prompt. Jams seems to think "explorers and conquerors" are rock ballads and indie folk, which is a little off.

I retooled the prompt to "epic songs about historical conquerors, adventurous. include historical folk songs about conquerors as well." The result (below) seemed more in-line with my intuitive take on the prompt. This is all bound to improve over time as Jams get smarter.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6HzDhzeKMRoncsCIrolgs8

[teetertater]

I really like this! Are you willing to share how it works?

[ekatzenstein]

Thanks! Just a mix of ChatGPT + Spotify. Nothing new on the tech front, just dipping my toes into AI tools :D

[foxyv]

I saw this on Spotify earlier and have been just chilling with it all week. Excellent stuff!

[ekatzenstein]

Thanks! Where on Spotify did you see it?

[tuchsen]

Intentionally gave it some pretty odd combinations and it did great. Good work!

[ekatzenstein]

Awesome, thanks!

[sighrobot]

That chat can really jam. Nice design too.

[ekatzenstein]

Thanks!

[jschwartz11]

Does it also work for podcasts?

[ekatzenstein]

It does! Just use the word "podcast" in your prompt.