I want Gemini to be my DJ in Youtube music

Imagine having your own DJ in your pocket, ready to mix your favorite songs at any time. No, not your father’s 3-5-second background, but rather a fully personalized mixture that makes the two songs that you transmit between Meld together as if they were designed in this way by the artists themselves. This is the idea behind the next A-Aitomix Apple Music Ai-Automix feature, which comes with the iOS 26 version of this fall.

As a former Spotify user and now a YouTube music user of several years, this is the first time that I even take a look at one of Apple’s rare Android applications. I’m not really a big fan of old -fashioned cross -functionality, but it’s different. Google constantly adds features fueled by Gemini in all its vertical sectors – including in the main YouTube application – but so far, we have not seen many of these AI prowess in Youtube music. Automix is an Apple Apple Music feature with major implications, and I have some ideas on how Google can bring its super powerful gemini experience in its musical application.

DJ Apple, turn this track!

Apple announced for the first time Automix in June at this year’s WWDC, its annual developer conference. In his own wordsThis feature uses “time stretching and match to offer continuous reading and even more transparent listening experience”. Aside from marketing jargon, there is a clear difference that you can hear with Automix activated compared to standard cross -transmission. The details on the functioning of the functionality are rare, but shortly after the output of the beta version of the iOS 26 developer, Automix in action videos quickly started to circulate on all the main social media platforms. For me at least, I was intrigued when I heard it in action.

Given that Automix is not a pre-pervented song database and is rather fueled by AI, the mixing experience can vary from one user to another. Sometimes the mixtures are quite disappointing – remember, it is still only a beta software – but more often than not, it does not work, it seems magic. He adds a whole new dimension to your musical listening experience. I would note here at the moment, Automix seems to work best when the two songs come from a similar genre or have a similar number of beats per minute. That said, I imagine that it will only improve in the future.

Automix is not an entirely new concept. In fact, Spotify published his own vision of this functionality years ago under the same name. It also seems to use the framework of beating to determine the best way to pass between the songs, but from the examples that I have seen and the comments of the users I read, the Apple intake seems to be a more advanced version. Perhaps the progress of AI also allows a better global mixing experience.

Youtube music must join the party

I have been a YouTube music convert for years now, and overall, I am very satisfied with the service. First and foremost, it is included with Premium Youtube, which is one of the reasons why I believe that Google’s subscription is one of the most high -value subscriptions. And at Google credit, YouTube music has often improved its service, adding new features and making the user interface more attractive and friendly.

Google has added capabilities fueled by Gemini to almost every corner of its software universe. From YouTube to Google Workspace via Android devices and almost everything, you will probably find a kind of gemini compatible functionality. And it’s not like we hadn’t seen Google Dabble in the world of musiceither.

Google must join the DJ party’s party, and this is only the beginning of what they could do with the power of Gemini. Automix seems honestly to be a little addition when I write about it, but I cannot emphasize enough how different it feels to listen to music with this activated mix. This constitutes such a satisfactory listening experience, and I am more than confident in a certain form of gemini supplying the version of Google.

Take this a little further than this relatively small automatic feature. If not, how could Gemini improve my musical streaming experience? Look no further than Spotify DJ, a feature that has already existed for a few years in Spotify Land. Essentially, Spotify uses AI to generate reading lists according to what you are already listening to, and that has helped my colleague discover much more music than before. Imagine that Google is opposed on this subject: a live gem type DJ with which you can speak from front to back and really refine your taste to find the most relevant music possible.

Here is the thing: Google already does most of the heavy work that this type of functionality would require. It already has a functionality in the Google Discover flow called Daily listens, where two “Podcast hosts” supplied by AI serve a daily podcast with news and information relevant to your interests. And it works incredibly well. Scary, if you ask me. And Google already generates reading lists according to text entry. Gemini could simply connect these points more effectively.

Since it is a live experience of Gemini, why not just buzz something in your microphone and make DJ Gemini generate a song reading list only based on the vibrations of everything you hum. It seems both incredible and incredibly achievable with the power of Gemini. I have the impression that we are only scratching the surface here, and yet, as I have already said, much of this is already underway by Google elsewhere in its services. Now, the YouTube music team just needs to pack everything for its platform.

Is Apple’s DJ good enough to make me abandon Youtube music?

Changing music services is not really fun. Application algorithms take the time to learn your preferences, and Youtube music has years of my listening data now, so it has become good enough to suggest the right music (and podcasts … Yes, I use this application for podcasts too) at the right time.

Is Apple’s Automix function sufficient to convince me to change? Only time will tell us, especially because we have not yet clarity that it will be a functionality or not only iPhone, or if it will eventually go to our world of green bubbles. Since it is a functionality fueled by AI, Apple may decide that Automix can only operate on Apple devices and Apple chips; I am not saying that it is not possible for them to bring it to Android, I simply wonder if Apple will use the AI on device as a reason to keep automix exclusive to its devices. That said, I tested the functionality on an iPhone 14 Pro, which does not have access to Apple Intelligence, so I assume that they will bring it to their Android application at some point, and perhaps even this fall when Automix is officially launched.

For the moment, I stick to Youtube music. I am really confident in Gemini at this stage, and that is only improving. Bringing more AI to Youtube music is the next logical step for the evolution of the platform. I remember when Google launched the Gemini for the first time – Do you remember Bard? – I didn’t really know what to do with Google AI. The transition from Google Assistant was also really difficult at the start. But Gemini has become very good, and more importantly, the way it was integrated into Google’s services has become extremely powerful. I use it a lot throughout my day. I think it is only a matter of time before seeing an automatic feature introduced into Youtube music, most likely alongside other features based on more advanced Gemini.