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AutoMix in iOS 26 Adds DJ-Like Song Transitions to Apple Music
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You can see if it’s mixing when the playback quality indicator changes from e.g. Lossless to “mixing”
Not on iOS 26, but the auto-mix software that I've tried would normally work best with music that was written/produced with mixing in mind (usually electronic dance or ambience tracks or pop music heavily leaning into those styles). The further one gets away from that, the less impressive the results are.
E.g., trying to auto-mix 20th century guitar rock tracks would hardly ever work well, because they're usually meant to function as individual pieces with a clear beginning and end, not as part of an uninterrupted stream of music.
This is a small blip on the grumpy scale. Prime MR grumpiness is complaining about a feature they’ll never use, demanding it never be implemented, then telling anyone who’s excited about said feature to go get an Android phone if they want that feature.
Would someone with Tahoe installed take a gander at Music for me? I have iOS 26 on a spare phone but don’t want to risk my daily Mac...
In iOS Music for a while I have been able to go into a playlists folder that contains other playlists and sort it by most recently updated. however, on the Mac Music app there is no sort by recently updated option.
Does the new macOS Music update give the option to sort playlists within playlists folders by most recently updated?
Thanks (I have a classical folder and within it I have almost all of the Apple Music Classical playlists added to my library. some of them are updated near the end of each week while others are rarely touched)
In iOS Music for a while I have been able to go into a playlists folder that contains other playlists and sort it by most recently updated. however, on the Mac Music app there is no sort by recently updated option.
Does the new macOS Music update give the option to sort playlists within playlists folders by most recently updated?
Thanks (I have a classical folder and within it I have almost all of the Apple Music Classical playlists added to my library. some of them are updated near the end of each week while others are rarely touched)
Pray tell, what grumpiness?
If you think that asking for superfluous and unwanted software “features” to not be shoved down our throats is “grumpy” then you need to bone up on your vocabulary.
And stop with the strawman dismissiveness.
Hence the reason I still have a job for 49 years as a DJ!
In the privacy of your own home, no problem. In a public setting especially for money, oh yeah!
Probably because a DJ would adjust the volumes of both tracks whereas I'm assuming Apple just mixes the two tracks full bore.
Yes but the volume check should prevent tracks to play at a disproportionate volumes, it simply doesn’t work. There are tracks that play so loud that you really need to run to the HomePod to lower the volume manually, because if you ask Siri to lower the volume you might end up with a calendar event created, or a text sent to your wife or something of that sort.
Utter rubbish.
If you read the item, it says "AutoMix is designed to transition from one song to another as the song that's playing ends, using time stretching and beat matching for a seamless shift." Those two things - altering speed and matching beats - make it different than crossfading, which is simply volume and has existed in Music, and before that iTunes, for years.
They must be joking. This is absolutely barbaric. That’s another L for Apple. It’s always something with Apple lately, one step forward two steps back.
I’ve tried it and I like it. I just wish the HonePods I have could do it on their own as well…maybe with this rumored Home overhaul?
Have to try this out. Liked the crossfade option. Looks like crossfade is getting replaced. Would have been nice if both crossfade and automix were available.
I'm baffled as to why this isn't working for me. iOS26 16 on an iPhone16 Pro, Apple One subscriber, definitely got it enabled in Settings (I've turned it off/on several times). Whilst most of my music probably isn't suited, I've still probably tried it on about 30 different songs in Dance/Electronica/Ambient style genres and they all just come to an end before the next one starts. If I switch to Crossfade transitions, that all works as it should, but nothing with AutoMix.
Lol. I obviously read it. I was posing a rhetorical question to express a point that it’s an just an overhyped transition style.
Since they already get their money from Apple Music streams, they have no single right to brag about artificial intelligence moving from one song to another🤣
As the feature matures I guess it will be even capable in creating real mashups. There are already services that do just that, just not from Apple. Also “sorts of” mashup-ing is already possible on Instagram - you can take two different tracks when you making reels, combine them on the timeline and it would write “[song name]+[song name] mix [username]” when you post it.
Piracy is when someone tries to sell a mashup, so if someone actually wants to sell/publish they would need to acquire a permission from all copyright holders. Soundcloud in that sense is a gray zone, most people upload their mashups there with no issues
Those are issues with the particular music pieces. Read about loudness war for more. Labels and artists specifically make their tracks as loud as possible, up to the point of dynamics loss and track sounding like some evil creation.
This is especially relevant to music released from 2012 and until 2017, after that artists came to realization that using compressors doesn’t equal to making music sound cool.
Ohh and especially remasters! I hate them. Remasters of popular rock and pop tracks, they are extra ugly. Take some Ozzy Osbourne remasters or even from Phil Collins, I literally can’t tell is it is a 808 tom or kickdrum thanks to increased loudness
Yes, your analogy to my comment is perfect, you got me, how shall I ever recover?
I fail to understand how spending time on stuff like this takes priority over QOL issues that the desktop Music app desperately needs, namely searches (buggy and wonky).