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Spotify’s prompted playlist feature will now work for podcasts, too

Spotify will now allow users to input natural language prompts to create a podcast playlist.

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Spotify’s prompted playlist feature will now work for podcasts, too

Spotify will now allow users to input natural language prompts to create a podcast playlist.

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