Spotify Launches Automix Feature to Create Professional Playlists

Introducing the Automix Feature

Spotify has launched an innovative feature that enables subscribers to create enhanced professional and personalized playlists. This function allows users to add automatic transition effects between songs within a playlist, or customize them with ready-made options such as gradual fade, volume swell, or seamless mixing. This feature, also known as "Automix," aims to provide a seamless listening experience across various devices (desktop, iOS, Android) (Source: Spotify Community). To start using this new feature, subscribers can simply open any playlist and click on the "Mix" option available in the toolbar.

When customizing tracks with multiple transition styles, users can control precise settings such as volume level, equalizer (EQ), and sound effects. They can also leverage waveform and rhythm data to determine optimal points for initiating smooth transitions between segments. Spotify aims to simplify the audio mixing process for beginners through this feature, by automatically displaying the key and beats per minute (BPM) of each audio track.

These new options are designed specifically to attract playlist creation experts and other music enthusiasts, who have collectively contributed to creating nearly nine billion unique playlists on the Spotify platform to date.

Feature Integration and Competition

This new rollout is an extension of a series of updates Spotify has launched over the past year, aiming to give users greater control over their audio experience. These updates include enhanced tools for adding, organizing, and modifying playlists, the ability to customize "Discover Weekly," options for postponing tracks, and the capability to direct voice commands to AI DJ, among many other innovative features.

Additionally, this feature enables Spotify to enhance its competitiveness with Apple Music's anticipated AutoMix feature, currently available in developer beta for iOS 26. Apple Music announces that AutoMix will allow users to mix "like a professional DJ." Premium subscribers with access to the new transition feature will be able to easily save and share modified playlists with friends across social media platforms, or even invite other subscribers to collaborate on creating mixed playlists. Mixing mode can be activated or deactivated at any time by pressing the "Mix" option, allowing the playlist to revert to its traditional form once its use for parties, workouts, or any other occasion is concluded. The company recommends using mixing specifically with music genres originally designed for seamless transitions, such as house and techno music, known for their ability to blend more smoothly.

Customization and Availability

Similar to traditional playlists, mixed playlists can be further customized with unique cover art, along with new stickers and tags specifically designed for these mixed playlists. Custom transition features in playlists are available starting today for most eligible Spotify Premium users worldwide. However, some markets in the Asia-Pacific region may have to wait a bit before this feature is activated for them. The feature is being rolled out gradually to users who have updated the Spotify app on their iOS devices.