# Help me make a playlist **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [March 24, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist/1016064 "2025-03-24T23:17:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GailForce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/dfb087/32.png) [@GailForce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GailForce)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist/1016064/1 "2025-03-24T23:17:39Z")
What I’ve done is collect links to various songs on Youtube in a Word Document. If I feel listening to a little music, I go to this document, and click on a link. After an ad, it plays the song. One at a time. Is there an easy way to turn this collection of links into something that plays a few songs in a row? Also, somewhat related, do you imagine if I fed my 10 favorite songs (or albums, or movies, I suppose) into some sort of AI, it would generate the 10 or 100 songs or albums or movies closest to the ones I’ve curated? Has anyone done anything like this? It would be a cool way for me to discover all sorts of things I’ve never tried but which I would like. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist/1016064/2 "2025-03-24T23:23:51Z")
You can make playlists at [music.youtube.com](http://music.youtube.com), or any other music service of your choice. Using a music service rather than youtube proper means you’ll get fewer ads. Every music service also uses algorithms to guess what kind of music you like based on the music you tell it you like. ---
**Author:** ![GailForce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/dfb087/32.png) [@GailForce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GailForce)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist/1016064/3 "2025-03-24T23:38:59Z")
Very cool. Thanks. So a bunch of songs, some I’ve heard and like, show up. What do I do to make them form my own playlist? Play each of them? How to expand what they gave me in the starter set? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist/1016064/4 "2025-03-24T23:47:46Z")
It’s going to be slightly different for any given music service, but they’ll all have an option somewhere to form a new playlist. [Here’s a help file for YouTube.](https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/answer/7205933?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist/1016064/5 "2025-03-25T00:33:54Z")
> [@GailForce](#): > > Also, somewhat related, do you imagine if I fed my 10 favorite songs (or albums, or movies, I suppose) into some sort of AI, it would generate the 10 or 100 songs or albums or movies closest to the ones I’ve curated? Has anyone done anything like this? [Pandora](https://www.pandora.com/) can do that for playing songs but, IME, needs to be guided via thumbs-up or -down several times on any given playlist before it can be left alone and not play something which doesn’t belong on that list. Particularly if the list is something out of the site’s comfort zone, like the “Irish” list I had playing a week ago. I’ve bought individual tracks and the occasional CD because of tracks which turned up on my Pandora playlists. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist/1016064/6 "2025-03-25T02:57:21Z")
Spotify has an AI DJ. I’ve not used it and I’ve read both great and thumbs down reviews. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist/1016064/7 "2025-03-25T23:43:39Z")
If you prepare an M3U file > **[M3U](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U)** > > M3U (MP3 URL or Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator in full) is a computer file format for a multimedia playlist. One common use of the M3U file format is creating a single-entry playlist file pointing to a stream on the Internet. The created file provides easy access to that stream and is often used in downloads from a website, for emailing, and for listening to Internet radio. > Although originally designed for audio files, such as MP3, it is commonly used to poi... Then most multimedia players will be able to deal with it. No need for third-party online services.