Spotify sets out how it plays inside Meta's Muse agent

Spotify has explained how listeners can run its app through Muse, Meta's personal AI agent, in a blog post published on 23 September.

Anyone who links the two accounts can ask Muse in conversation to play music on Spotify. No buttons needed. Just ask.

The link covers the basics and a little more. Muse can save songs to a Spotify Library, build new playlists and pick up a podcast that was started earlier on Spotify, according to details reported by Music Business Worldwide. It can also send music to another device. Spotify gives the example of asking Muse to play a saved playlist on a connected kitchen speaker.

There is also a made-for-Muse audio feature. Users can ask Muse to create a Personal Podcast, which turns daily briefings, notes and ideas into audio that is then saved to their Spotify Library.

Switching it on takes two routes. Users turn connectors on under Settings and then Connectors in the Muse app, or they ask the agent to connect an account. A connector, in Meta's language, is the link that lets Muse reach into another app to get things done.

Spotify has been a Muse connector since Muse launched on 8 September. At launch, Meta chief AI officer Alexandr Wang named Spotify alongside Gmail, Google Calendar, OpenTable and Plaid as early connectors.

Muse itself is still new and still spreading. It runs on what Meta calls the Muse Secure VM, a dedicated virtual machine, and it is powered by a model Meta has named Muse Spark. It launched in the United States on iOS, Android and muse.ai, with conversations also available in WhatsApp. A Mac version arrived on 17 September, with Canada following the next day.

Meta describes Muse as a secure, private personal AI agent that proactively helps people meet their goals and suggests ideas, as set out in Meta's launch announcement. Spotify says it is now available across more than 2,000 devices, from cars, TVs and speakers to ChatGPT and Claude.

For listeners, this means less tapping and more asking. A commute mix, a saved episode or a kitchen-speaker singalong can start with a sentence to Muse, with Spotify handling the playback behind it.