Music crashes when it's Delivering Your Genius Results and when you tell it to download an album that it should have already auto downloaded, whichever comes first.
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AutoMix in iOS 26 Adds DJ-Like Song Transitions to Apple Music
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And not randomly pulling tracks from albums and sticking them in EPs and vice versa.
That’s exactly the kind of music I was referring to, but I still think the software should be smart enough to make it smooth and not blasting it out like that
Generally agree. But where do you get it just right? Some songs cut in too early, some too late... Option should remain to a user to never utilize it on specific songs. That silence on occasion is purposeful, and given the song, gives more gravitas.
Hopefully the release version works as well as I've seen in the few demos going around. This is one of the little features that I'm most excited for, but I do wonder how it will handle playlists with many different genres, tempos, etc.
I am honestly stunned. Thanks for sharing that!
That is truly a big surprise and maybe some actual hope that Apple's path might be a bit more focused finally? Wow again.
My wow isn't for this feature really, but just the fact that it looks like they might actually be trying to finally unify things across their OSes.
I hope it has slip-cue for instant transitions also. That would literally rock.
YES!
The endless remasters that I keep hearing, are 99% trash. And then with streaming, you're stuck with that master version until the next one is released, which is usually some worse version. Not a fan overall of what the artists are continually putting out, or what I assume must be the artists since Apple themselves isn't doing the type of "remastering" that I'm talking about.
Just about all of the songs from the 80s and 90s that are streaming seem to be not just smoothly remastered to sound better, but full remixes a lot of the time.
Very glad I kept my CDs, I prefer the mixes on those to the "latest", "remaster" (major remixing + mastering).
😂 seriously?! Self-paroding response aside, adding one more feature (out of the hundreds you never use and don't even notice) is hardly shoving anything down anyone's throat. Many other people will find extremely useful.
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Some albums, especially from certain music genres are made to be played without any silence between tracks.
I wish, unless you already can, I have not actually looked. But I wish you could turn crossfading of any type on or off per-song.
That way I can select my albums that shouldn't ever crossfade and the rest of my music would use the default.
Messages on macOS finally has parity with iOS, too. Other macOS apps have been freshened as well, but Messages was really behind in functionality.
I agree most remasters are $ grabs or copyright renewal. But I think they're important and they need to be done correctly, to get the state-of-the-art sound quality off these historical master recordings while they're still viable. And I want the best possible sounding document of my favorite music.
However, remixing, or mastering them badly, distorts what made them historic to begin with.
Yes, so long as it is optional. If it is, I have no problem with it.
Seems like they are trying to replicate Serato’s discontinued program, Pyro which was pretty flawless for the most part.
100% agree. If this mixes audio that's resident on the iPhone, I don't see why it would need a subscription.
Hopefully this changes in later betas to include local files on the iPhone and not just for Apple Music subscribers.
Does this only make sense for a specific type of genres, which is basically rap and hip hop? I don't know how this would sound for something like Country or Rock music. I would like to actually hear complete songs on both of those genres.
Or am I misunderstanding what this feature actually does?
Or am I misunderstanding what this feature actually does?
No - they will both be available to switch between in the music settings (but not both at the same time).
When it works it’s been amazing for me. I have mostly house music in my favourites though and I can’t imagine it working well for other genres (and I haven’t even tested it tbf). I’ve noticed if I play my playlist from the music app it’ll mix the tracks but if I ask Siri to play my favourite music it won’t. For what it is atm I think the feature’s cool but I wish crossfade would be enabled as a fallback when automix doesn’t work.