Ask Music is a Generative AI experience that allows you to discover new music and podcasts. Simply describe what you're in the mood for, such as a specific activity, genre, or favorite creator, to receive a personalized selection of music or podcasts. Each recommendation is tailored to you and features both new discoveries and the artists or shows you already love.
Generate a custom station with Ask Music
Ask Music for music
Whether you want music that makes you feel warm and fuzzy on a rainy day or an upbeat playlist for your cardio workout, Ask Music allows you to create a personalized experience just for you.
How Ask Music works
From the home screen 
- Find the What are you in the mood for? section.
- Tap the Ask any way you like text box.
- Use voice
or text to tell the app what you’d like to listen to.
- To access previous mixes, navigate to your library
and select from the player page of the song that is part of one of your previous mixes.
- To access previous mixes, navigate to your library
From the search page:
- Tap
in the upper-right corner.
- Use voice
- If your search query returns a customized mix as the top result, you may see the label “Mix created by AI.â€
- Tap Play within the top result and music will begin playing right away.
Note: Ask Music uses a large language model (LLM), a machine learning technology, to interpret what you tell it you want to hear and to generate a title and short description for your customized mix.
Customized mixes appearing as top results on the search results page are pre-generated by our systems using an LLM to create the title, description and metadata of the mix. Your personal data is not used for this purpose.
Quality and accuracy may vary. We've incorporated safeguards into our AI tools, which aim to avoid the generation of inappropriate content. As such, we may block prompts or outputs that violate our policies, or those that touch on sensitive topics. We're constantly learning and we want to improve this feature, so submit feedback if you find an issue.Generate a custom station with Ask Music
Use AI to turn an idea into a customized mix experience by describing what you want to hear. To get started:
- Open YouTube Music and go to your Home tab
- Tap “Ask any way you like.â€
- Enter a prompt that describes a mood, activity, or listening experience.
- Tap
to listen to your custom mix experience.
You can start a new experience at any time by tapping .
Ask Music for podcasts
You can use Ask Music in YouTube Music to discover podcast shows and episodes using natural language. Describe what you want to hear, and our conversational AI will provide tailored recommendations based on your interests.
Discover podcasts with Ask Music
From the home screen
- Find the What are you in the mood for? section.
- Tap the Ask any way you like text box.
- Use voice
- Enter a prompt or use your voice to describe a topic, genre, or mood. For example, you can ask for "intellectual podcasts about tech" or "podcasts about pop culture."
Interact with recommendations
Once you receive a recommendation, you can refine your discovery or save content for later:
- Explore suggestions: Tap the suggestion chips or follow-up prompts at the bottom of the interface to continue the conversation.
- Save for later: Add a recommended episode to your Saved podcasts playlist or save a show to your Library.
Eligibility & availability
- Membership: Ask Music is available for YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium members at this time.
- Devices: This feature is currently available on mobile devices only.
- Languages: You can use this feature if your app language is set to English or Spanish.
- Locations: Ask Music is available in the following countries:
- Australia
- Canada
- Ireland
- Latin American countries (excluding Brazil)
- Mexico
- New Zealand
- United Kingdom
- United States