Spotify is introducing a new feature that allows subscribers to create more professional, personalized playlists. On Tuesday, the company launched a custom transitions feature that lets you either automatically add transitions between a playlist’s tracks or customize your own using preset options like fade, rise, or blend, along with other options.
To use the feature, open any playlist and select “Mix” from the toolbar to begin editing. While customizing the track with different transition styles, you can also adjust settings for things like the volume, EQ, and effects, and use the waveform and beat data to find the best spot in each track to begin the transition.
Spotify notes that it will automatically display the key and the beats per minute for each track, to make it easier for novice audio mixers to get started.
The new options are designed to appeal to playlist experts and other music fans, who have collectively created nearly 9 billion playlists on Spotify’s platform to date.
The rollout complements other updates Spotify has launched over the past year that give users more control over their listening experience, the company says, like the tools to add, sort, and edit playlists, customize the genre of the Discover Weekly playlist, snooze tracks, make voice requests to the AI DJ, and more. It also allows Spotify to compete with Apple Music’s upcoming AutoMix feature, which is currently live in the iOS 26 developer beta, and claims to let you mix “like a DJ.”
Premium subscribers with access to the transitions feature will also be able to save and share the playlist with other friends on social media or even invite other subscribers to collaborate on a mixed playlist.
The mix can be toggled on and off at any time by pressing the “mix” option, allowing you to turn your playlist back to the more traditional kind when the party or gym workout (or wherever else you’re streaming the mix) has ended.
The company also recommends that mixing works best with music that’s already been produced for seamless transitions, like house and techno, which tend to blend more easily.
Like other playlists, the mixes can be further customized using your own cover art along with newly added stickers and labels made just for mixed playlists.
Custom transitions in playlists are available starting today for the majority of eligible Premium users worldwide. (The company says some markets in the APAC region will still need to wait for the addition.) The feature is rolling out gradually to users who have updated their iOS app.
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