Spotify’s newest characteristic helps you to add your individual transitions to playlists | TechCrunch

Spotify is introducing a brand new characteristic that enables subscribers to create extra skilled, customized playlists. On Tuesday, the corporate launched a customized transitions characteristic that permits you to both robotically add transitions between a playlist’s tracks or customise your individual utilizing preset choices like fade, rise, or mix, together with different choices.

To make use of the characteristic, open any playlist and choose “Mix” from the toolbar to start modifying. Whereas customizing the monitor with completely different transition kinds, you may also modify settings for issues like the quantity, EQ, and results, and use the waveform and beat knowledge to search out one of the best spot in every monitor to start the transition.

Spotify notes that it’ll robotically show the important thing and the beats per minute for every monitor, to make it simpler for novice audio mixers to get began.

The brand new choices are designed to enchantment to playlist consultants and different music followers, who’ve collectively created almost 9 billion playlists on Spotify’s platform thus 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 characteristic, which is presently reside within the iOS 26 developer beta, and claims to allow you to combine “like a DJ.”

Premium subscribers with entry to the transitions characteristic may even be capable to save and share the playlist with different associates on social media and even invite different subscribers to collaborate on a combined playlist.

The combination could be toggled on and off at any time by urgent the “mix” possibility, permitting you to show your playlist again to the extra conventional sort when the celebration or health club exercise (or wherever else you’re streaming the combo) has ended.

The corporate additionally recommends that mixing works greatest with music that’s already been produced for seamless transitions, like home and techno, which are inclined to mix extra simply.

Like different playlists, the mixes could be additional personalized utilizing your individual cowl artwork together with newly added stickers and labels made only for combined playlists.

Customized transitions in playlists can be found beginning at this time 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 characteristic is rolling out progressively to customers who’ve up to date their iOS app.