Google’s latest AI experiment, Gemini, is about to get a lot more useful thanks to support for third-party music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music. This new development has apparently been found in Gemini’s settings, and users can choose their favorite streaming service to use within Gemini.
Gemini has worked shifts for various Google products, mainly as a digital assistant, sometimes instead of and sometimes in combination with Google Assistant.
It’s still somewhat limited compared to Assistant and isn’t yet at the stage where it can completely replace the Google component. One of these limitations is that it cannot enable a streaming service of the user’s choice to play a song or other audio recording, as many popular digital assistants (including Google Assistant) can. However, this may not be the case for long.
The tech blog PiunikaWeb and X user @AssembleDebug claim that Gemini is getting the feature, and they have screenshots to back up their claim.
Screenshots from PiunikaWeb tipster show that the Gemini app settings now have a new “Music” option, with the text “Select preferred services used to play music” underneath. This will presumably allow users to choose from all streaming services that Google deems compatible.
Once you choose a streaming service, Gemini will hopefully work seamlessly with that service and allow you to control it with voice commands. PiunikaWeb suggests that users can use Gemini for song identification, possibly by having Gemini listen to the song and then interact with a streaming app to try to find the song playing in their area, similar to the way Shazam works. If that’s the case, you won’t need a separate app as much.
We don’t know what yet, but we hope to know soon
This is all very exciting and from the screenshots it looks like the feature is already well under development.
It’s not clear if PiunikaWeb’s tipster can actually get the feature to work or which streaming services will work in sync with Gemini, and we don’t know when Google will roll out this feature.
Still, it’s highly requested and a must if Google has any plans for Gemini to take the Assistant’s place, so it will likely be rolled out in a future Gemini update. It’s also indicative to me that Google seems quite committed to expanding the Gemini repertoire to join Google’s other popular products and services.