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Spotify Lossless could have grabbed the headlines within the music streaming world this month, however there are different common streaming providers and apps which have not too long ago unveiled loads of helpful options which might be designed to reinforce your listening experiences.
Apple Music and Qobuz have cool new options of their respective apps – one focuses on evolving personalised suggestions, whereas a significant software program replace introduces intelligent shortcuts, in addition to a nifty lyric translation and pronunciation characteristic. In the hi-fi world, the BluOS management app – used with Bluesound, NAD, Cyrus and Dali streaming merchandise – has a much less showy however vital replace for normal energy customers.
I’ve been exploring a few of these new options this week, so here’s a rundown of probably the most attention-grabbing updates from every platform.
Qobuz redesigns its Discover page and offers personalised Daily mixes
The ‘Editor’s Picks’ tab showcases new releases, playlists, albums of the week and more that are 100% human-curated selections by Qobuz’s team of music experts. The ‘For You’ tab is more personalised to your listening tastes, and evolves as you listen. The Weekly Q recommendation playlist (which refreshes every Friday) is now joined by a new Daily Q playlist that is populated every day using Qobuz’s recommendation engine.
Qobuz’s editorial team also throws in a few surprises here, so it’s not entirely algorithm-led. This means you’ll get left-field suggestions that feel out of place if you’re more used to Tidal and Apple Music’s mixes, but it’s great to see Qobuz offer more options for personalised playlists and tailored music to regular users.
You can also save Daily mixes as a playlist so that a great selection isn’t lost the next day.
Additionally, there’s a new Release Watch feature that highlights new releases from artists and labels you follow (Qobuz encourages you to follow more to make this more useful). And finally, a Spotlight feature focuses on one of your favourite artists, encouraging you to take a deep dive into their discography and peruse any related magazine content written by the Qobuz team.
iOS26 grants Apple Music a bundle of new features, including lyric translations
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I just updated my iPhone to the latest iOS26 software and with that came a whole bunch of new Apple Music features. The menus and sub-sections have been given a fresh makeover in line with iOS26’s ‘Liquid Glass’ concept, which results in a layered, more reactive and ‘bubble-y’ interface that works pretty well.
It’s all rather slick, although I’m still getting used to the menu tabs disappearing when scrolling, and the search bar being at the bottom of the screen. There is also now a shortcut to open an artist’s page in Apple Music Classical.
An AI-powered AutoMix feature is much hyped, which supposedly makes DJ-style smooth transitions between songs by matching beats, although I didn’t find that this worked successfully in my existing (and carefully curated) playlists. The transitions between songs sounded a bit mushed, but perhaps I need to try another way.
I do like the ability to ‘pin’ certain albums and tracks at the top of my library, though.
One new feature that has impressed me is that you can now opt to see translations and pronunciation guides alongside the original lyrics. This means I now know exactly what they’re singing, and how to pronounce the Korean lyrics, in the mega-successful KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack. The font and layout are neatly done, and easy to follow along with the song.
Note that this feature isn’t available for all songs – for instance, Edith Piaf’s La Vie En Rose and Kneecap’s tracks all display their respective native French and Irish lyrics only. You’ll need to look out for the little translation icon to see if it’s available for any given song, and you can choose to show (or hide) either the translation or pronunciation, too.
Queue up songs and create playlists more intuitively with this helpful BluOS update
It’s not just music streaming services that are offering new features; multi-room streaming and control app BluOS has added a ‘Queue Builder Mode’ that lets you queue up songs on the fly more easily, as well as edit, build upon and save these queues as playlists, without interrupting your music listening.
BluOS is the streaming platform for plenty of the best music streamers and hi-fi streaming systems, including models from Bluesound, NAD, Cyrus Audio, Dali and more. So if you have any one of the excellent streamers that use this platform – such as the Bluesound Node, the Cyrus 40 ST or NAD C 3050 – and enjoy building custom playlists, then this feature should be worth updating the app for.
This new mode “simplifies the way users build queues and playlists”. When this mode is activated, you can add tracks as you’re browsing (simply tap the plus sign to add to the queue) through connected services within the BluOS Controller app. You can even combine tracks from different streaming services here – it’s a feature we are keen to try out when we next update the five-star streamers we have in our test rooms.
You can get the Queue Builder Mode in the BluOS 4.12 update, which also brings the all-important Qobuz Connect integration for supported models.
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