Crossfade in Apple Music on iPhone

If you want to use crossfade on the iPhone with your own downloads or files, download Onkyo HF Player which can accomplish that and it's free. It only costs you if you want to use it for hi-res music. There are a few other players that also have crossfade. Maybe some day Apple will add the feature to iOS.

lol I love how people have to indicate the model of their iPhone on these forums. Like obviously you have an iPhone but to go out of your way to actually say what model it is and of course almost every time it’s always the most expensive model as if that makes your post more important. It’s so elitist it’s pathetic. No one even actually knows if in fact you own that model but also no one cares. Lol oh brother.

Yes it would be nice if there was cross fade on iOS in Apple Music. It’s 2021. How can this NOT be a thing by now? Oh, because it’s Apple. For now considering all other things, Spotify still wins over this one oversight. How ironic as Apple itself promotes such attention to detail this is where they fail.

It’s comical.

Well kids cross face is 100 percent possible on iPhone just not through the MUSIC app. I use Sonos quite a bit and I cross face through sonos all the time. My songs come to through sonos through my network on my iPhone so Apple don’t even try to pretend it’s not possible. It is. And having songs stop in between tracks is very 1978, hmmmmm. Apple is out of date.

there's no question that apple should allow cross fade + beat matching.

they should also allow songs to advance after 3min or whatever.

they make tools to create playlists for parties, but then the user has to take focus away from the party to change the song every 3min

apple probably has economic and rights related reasons for not doing it, but its killing the vibe of this app, and is a main reason for music lovers to switch to spotify

That's great that the iPod has crossfade but it's hard to compare to the newer devices which have different software. The original question had to do with an iPhone which is a totally different piece of hardware. As I suggested earlier, someone would have to use a different music player on the iPhone that has crossfade such as Onkyo HF Player.

I used to use an very old laptop with Windows Vista to play music using itunes, it was great for family parties using the crossfade feature. It was connected to a hi fi using a USB sound card with optical output and sounded great. I also have crossfade on itunes on a Windows 10 PC. My old laptop finally gave up so I thought I would use my 4 month old ipad to play music at parties from my play lists using the music app. This is when I found out that ios no longer has crossfade in the music app!!! A search on the web looking how to use crossfade lead me here. I am not impressed, if Android users and Windows users can have crossfade, why can't iphone and ipad users have crossfade? I've used iphones since the first model was sold and I remember that the itunes app used to have crossfade, it seems to have dissapeared when it changed to the Music app.

Perhaps I should buy a cheap Windows laptop and put itunes on it with my music collection and play lists (and crossfade) and connect this to my hi fi.

The answer as I said in the post preceding yours is to use a similar app such as the Onkyo HF Player (which is free) which has crossfade although it is not adjustable but works well. I'm sure there are other similar apps.

What you're describing regarding the computer/laptop has not changed as the current Music app for Mac computers has crossfade as did all iTunes Mac/Windows versions. The iPhone/iPad OS is different then Mac OS or Windows although with current Mac OS, there is a closer integration. Why the Android version has it I can't say. As for the first iPhone which I still have, it did not have crossfade on the iPod app which was what it was called then. This is why I have used the Onkyo app when I bought an iPhone 4 since iTunes/iPod app never had crossfade for the iPhone and I assume iPad which I do not have. So you are incorrect about the first iPhone which is understandable as I had to turn mine on to be sure as well.

I would look into an app which has the features you want since it does not appear that the newer Music app is going to be any different than the previous iTunes iterations for the iPhone or iPad.

I thought finally to make the switch from Spotify after a million years to Apple Music. Imagine my horror to realize that you can’t have gapless playback?? Plus Spotify has a real EQ that you can adjust and makes most “modern” music sound good enough (vs lossless). Not gonna be around Apple Music for long. Jeez.

"I can’t believe you still can’t cross fade on Apple Music. Spotify on IOS did it, so it’s not an iOS thing. What gives??!"

Apple gives. Or, more accurately, doesn't give. Doesn't give a flying monkey's *** on what we need or want.

If I were you I'd go back to Spotify.

It's still not an option. FFS, Spotify, and nearly every other streaming app have this. Why doesn't iOS when Android has this?? I canceled Spotify because of obvious reasons, but honestly, Apple Music is really lacking in features.

So what you’re telling us is that android users get a feature for APPLE Music before apple users? You don’t see an issue with that. You want your customers to be loyal to apple but then s**t on your customers like this. Why on earth would you make it possible for an android but not the phone and platform that the app was actually designed for? Makes a lot of sense. You guys need to get your s**t together or you’re going to lose a lot of customers and trust me I work for a phone carrier and the things you guys are and aren’t doing to your customers is causing them to switch all the time.

What rights? They already have the right to distribute that music, and we already have the right to listen to it. No special rights are needed to turn the volume up or down, or to cut a few seconds off each track.

No, it's not quite the same. It would be more like displaying said Van Gogh in a different lighting.

Besides, the same files, having the same DRM, can be crossfaded just fine on macOS, which is also managed by Apple. So even if we assume that some special rights were necessary for this operation, Apple already has them.

Also, the iOS app doesn't even crossfade the MP3 files that you own, and which did not come from Apple Music and have no DRM attached.

So no, I'm not convinced. There's no point in contriving elaborate explanations for what could be easily explained by laziness and indifference to users' wishes, the latter of which has always been a defining characteristic of Apple. Occam's razor.

Hey apple, I am a trusted user for your products. And I also know that you have other things that you are trying to tweak and such. But while you’re doing so this subject does need to be recognized. As you might already know, Android users are able to cross fade music on your app so why can’t your Loyal companions “us” have the same luxury as well?

-Concerned citizen of the apple community.

I’ve been very loyal to Apple products and the services provided, but I really had it good with Spotify when it came to cross fading. This is important to me when creating my own playlists, but Apple doesn’t offer this feature. If this is not added to Apple Music soon I will definitely be going back to Spotify…

So disappointed this wasn’t an announced feature in iOS 16