Spotify is introducing a brand new function that enables subscribers to create extra skilled, personalised playlists. On Tuesday, the corporate launched a customized transitions function that permits you to both robotically add transitions between a playlist’s tracks or customise your personal utilizing preset choices like fade, rise, or mix, together with different choices.
To make use of the function, open any playlist and choose “Combine” from the toolbar to start modifying. Whereas customizing the observe with totally different transition kinds, you may also modify settings for issues like the amount, EQ, and results, and use the waveform and beat information to seek out the very best spot in every observe to start the transition.
Spotify notes that it’ll robotically show the important thing and the beats per minute for every observe, to make it simpler for novice audio mixers to get began.
The brand new choices are designed to attraction to playlist consultants and different music followers, who’ve collectively created almost 9 billion playlists on Spotify’s platform so far.
The rollout enhances different updates Spotify has launched over the previous yr that give customers extra management over their listening expertise, the corporate says, just like the instruments to add, kind, and edit playlists, customise the style of the Uncover Weekly playlist, snooze tracks, make voice requests to the AI DJ, and extra. It additionally permits Spotify to compete with Apple Music’s upcoming AutoMix function, which is at the moment stay within the iOS 26 developer beta, and claims to allow you to combine “like a DJ.”
Premium subscribers with entry to the transitions function will even have the ability to save and share the playlist with different buddies on social media and even invite different subscribers to collaborate on a blended playlist.
The combo could be toggled on and off at any time by urgent the “combine” choice, permitting you to show your playlist again to the extra conventional form when the occasion or fitness center exercise (or wherever else you’re streaming the combination) has ended.
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The corporate additionally recommends that mixing works finest with music that’s already been produced for seamless transitions, like home and techno, which are likely to mix extra simply.
Like different playlists, the mixes could be additional custom-made utilizing your personal cowl artwork together with newly added stickers and labels made only for blended playlists.
Customized transitions in playlists can be found beginning at present for almost all of eligible Premium customers worldwide. (The corporate says some markets within the APAC area will nonetheless want to attend for the addition.) The function is rolling out step by step to customers who’ve up to date their iOS app.
