Revolutionize Your Playlists with Personalized Transitions
There's a new way to up your playlist game! A popular music streaming service is now offering a feature that gives subscribers the chance to make their playlists feel more professional and personal. This novel function allows you to add custom transitions between the songs in your playlist, either automatically or by selecting from preset options such as fade, rise, or blend. And that's not all - you'll have a host of other options to choose from to truly make your playlist unique.
How to Use the New Feature
To take advantage of this exciting new tool, all you need to do is open up your playlist and click on "Mix" in the toolbar to start editing. As you're customizing your transitions, you can also tweak things like the volume, EQ, and effects. Plus, you can use the waveform and beat data to pinpoint the perfect spot in each song to start the transition.
The music streaming service has made the process user-friendly, even for those who are new to audio mixing. For each song in your playlist, the key and beats per minute will be displayed automatically, making it easy to get started on your mixing journey.
Appealing to Music Fans and Playlist Pros
These new options are a game-changer for music lovers and playlist gurus. In fact, users have already created nearly 9 billion playlists on the service. The addition of custom transitions enhances the user's control over their listening experience, building on previous updates that allow users 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. The new feature is also a great way to compete with other music streaming services, which are also introducing similar capabilities.
Sharing and Collaborating
Subscribers who have access to the transitions feature will have the added bonus of being able to save and share their playlists on social media. They can even invite other friends to collaborate on a mixed playlist. The "mix" option can be toggled on and off at any time, so you can switch your playlist back to its original format whenever you wish.
Best Practices for Mixing
The company suggests that mixing works best with music that's already been produced for seamless transitions. Genres like house and techno, which tend to blend more easily, are ideal for this feature.
Just like other playlists, these mixes can be further tailored to your liking. You can use your own cover art and even add newly introduced stickers and labels that are specifically designed for mixed playlists.
Availability
Most Premium users around the world can start using the custom transitions feature in their playlists as of now. However, some users in the APAC region will need to wait a bit longer for this addition. The feature will be rolling out gradually to those who have updated their app for iOS or Android.