2 Unique AI Use Cases for Generating a Podcast Show Notes and Spotify Playlists

Generate Show Notes with Links from a Podcast

I continue to experiment daily to find unique ways to use AI. Lately I’ve been using the built in Gemini integration in Chrome. I recently listened to the latest episode of the Tim Ferriss Show Podcast, “The Random Show” with Kevin Rose. This is a regular series between them where they often mention great resources that can be found in the show notes on the podcast page with links to visit everything mentioned. However, this recent episode didn’t have that, so I took it upon myself to try and use AI to generate the list I’m accustomed to normally seeing.

I visited the page in my browser and only saw a transcript without the show notes and usual links. So I invoked the Gemini button in Chrome and gave it a prompt to analyze the page and generate the link list for me.

Chrome browser visiting the podcast page and using the Gemini button on the selected tab to analyze.

Gemini combed the transcript to research everything mentioned and then provided me a categorized lists with links to each of them. I think this is a great use case that could be applied to most podcasts. Here’s the link to my prompt and response page which you can review.

Generate a Spotify Playlist from Song Mentions on a Post

The second thing I tried was to visit a Reddit page where someone asked people to drop in songs that every Cure fan should know. As I started reading all the comments and all the songs people were recommending, I thought it would be a great idea to be able to create a Spotify playlist from the recommendations. I’ve actually done this manually in the past, but thought Gemini could probably automate this for me.

So again, I invoked the Gemini button and gave it a prompt to create the list for me. It wasn’t able to create the playlist directly in Spotify for me yet because it can’t access my account. But then it offered to generate a plain text list, which I could then use in a third-party service called TuneMyMusic to generate the playlist. This was pretty easy to accomplish and it worked flawlessly.

Using Gemini to create a list of songs mentioned in a Reddit post to create a Spotify playlist.

I went ahead and shared the playlist on Reddit which was much appreciated by OP. You can find the details for my prompt and results here. And if you’re interested you can find the Spotify playlist here.

Note: I tried doing the same thing, using the same prompts in both of these scenarios in Comet and it didn’t do very well. It only got a few links for the podcast and missed 80% of what Gemini found. And for the songs it only identifed about half the ones Gemini did.