Spotify already offers a host of custom playlists, and now the company is giving users even more control over generating those mixes. Based on mood, decades, and genre playlists, platform, Spotify Today a feature that the company says combines all of your custom playlists “in a playful way.”
In short, you can now ask Spotify to create an algorithmically generated mix for almost any mood or genre. To do so, navigate to Spotify’s search bar and type in the activity you want the app to record for you, adding “mix” to the end. You can be quite creative. I asked Spotify to create a playlist of haunted houses for me, followed by one with relaxing video game soundtracks. In both cases, Spotify complied and did a very good job of selecting the appropriate tracks. That being said, sometimes you will run into situations where Spotify won’t produce an exact match for the mix you want. For example, I asked him to create a “dubstep work mix”, only to get a workout playlist instead.
As with the company’s other custom mixes, you can expect each playlist to feature a mix of familiar songs along with tracks you may not have heard before. Niche mixes are available today for free and Premium users looking for English.
