Any equivalent to Genius Shuffle on iOS - either an app or shortcut?

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Recently rediscovered Genius shuffle in the Music app on macOS and am loving it

Sad to see that Apple removed that functionality in the Music app on iOS a few years ago I believe

Does anybody know of a 3rd party app that comes close to recreating the functionality of Genius on iOS?

Or even a shortcut that can do this?

TIA

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I only vaguely recall what genius shuffle did. Does this functionality from soor do what youā€™re describing?

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I have Soor and have created the ā€™geniusā€™ mix as Federico had described but that doesnā€™t really do the same thing as Appleā€™s genius shuffle/mix

Appleā€™s version is more a riff off a single song - you tell it to create a genius mix or shuffle based on a song and, bang, almost instantaneously comes up with a great mix of songs, again, based on the origin song

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I see that the article you linked is by Ryan, but here is the one to which I was referring where Federico describes how he made a ā€˜genius mixā€™

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In that case I donā€™t know of any apps or shortcuts that replicate.

Does pandora count?

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Auto play!

See the ā€œauto play modeā€ heading here: What's new in the Apple Music app for iOS 14: Listen Now tab, endless autoplay, iPad redesign - 9to5Mac

Itā€™s not quite the same as you canā€™t create/save playlists, but the way it chooses music reminds me of the old Genius mode.

And yes, I miss it on iOS too.

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Thanks for the reminder about autoplay!

Hereā€™s what I did - started a song from a playlist and then used Federicoā€™s Musicbot shortcut to clear the Up Next queue

Then I touched the autoplay icon - ā€˜similarā€™ songs were then added to the queue

Wonder if the songs are generated in a similar manner to genius on macOS music, but I guess this is the closest weā€™ll get

Thanks again

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I think the ā€œCreate a Stationā€ option from a song is fairly equivalent to genius playlists, but I might be mistaken!

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I canā€™t imagine Apple would have vastly different algorithms to provide Genius, Create a Station, and autoplay. Oddly, though, I have never found Stations to be as good as Genius or autoplay.

Probably just bad luck, superstition, or both.

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Thanks for the additional suggestion

I will try creating a station on iOS and see how it compares with the same song genius shuffled on macOS

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Just ran across this in my RSS feeds. Looks like there may be something in one of the apps.

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Thanks for the link

That MagicPlaylist option looks interesting, though it requires a Spotify account

I have a free account and I guess I could just create the playlist on Spotify and then SongShift it over to Apple Music