AI Playlist Maker: PlaylistAI 12+

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I’m in love with this app! It takes all the brain work out of creating the many different playlists I need. It’s as simple as putting in your genre and bpm, a group of artists pop up and you can delete whoever you aren’t interested in. Within seconds you have an amazing brand new playlist!!

Buggy, slow, and expensive. What’s the point?

I tried several features of this app when it first launched and again in Nov 2023. It’s ridiculously buggy and slow. I tried creating a couple playlists just now and after waiting 3 minutes for a response, I gave up. Same with finding “friends of artists”, no response in a reasonable amount of time. When the full ChatGPT4 Turbo with custom GPT assistants is $20/mo and has unlimited uses (not just playlist creation), why would I spend $2.99/mo for this app? Especially when ChatGPT can spit out a playlist for me in about 10 seconds vs this app taking 3+ minutes?

Also, ChatGPT directly makes MUCH better playlists, and is interactive so you can tailor it to your personal preferences. I find that this app generates completely predictable playlists of hit songs that I’ve heard thousands of times, even if I prompt it to make a playlist of “b-sides and discovery”… while the same prompt on ChatGPT directly generates a playlist full of surprises.

Developer Response ,

Sorry about your experience, ChatGPT has been having a lot of outages this week with the release of their new models which has been affecting playlistai performance. If you email me at brett@playlistai.app I can credit you with more playlists

Work in progress, but wow!

This app has made some amazing playlists !

But the AI is still somewhat limited. I can type “upbeat new wave” and it makes a fine playlist. If I try to create “songs about dogs” or “songs about superheroes” it fails completely. It doesn’t seem to recognize BPM, lyrics or themes. For me, THAT will be the killer application. I’d love to be able to tell it “play songs from Oingo Boingo that have themes about death or scary things”, “Songs with the word “love” in it.”

That may just be a training issue (maybe a way to edit the prompt after generating the playlist, or communicate to the ai directly, like ChatGPT and offer criticism there) If the app/service can meet its promise, This will be a game changer.