{"id":49288,"date":"2025-09-16T16:29:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=49288"},"modified":"2025-09-16T16:29:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:29:47","slug":"audioos-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/16\/audioos-26\/","title":{"rendered":"audioOS 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/09\/15\/apple-releases-homepod-software-26\/\">Juli Clover<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/108045\">release notes<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/09\/15\/apple-releases-homepod-software-26\/\"><p>HomePod  Software 26 adds support for crossfade, a feature that&rsquo;s designed to more smoothly transition between songs. It also includes AirPlay improvements[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>It <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/31\/homepod-late-adopter\/\">still<\/a> claims that lots of the albums I&rsquo;ve purchased from Apple aren&rsquo;t available.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/29\/audioos-18-6\/\">audioOS 18.6<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/16\/audioos-18\/\">audioOS 18<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover (release notes): HomePod Software 26 adds support for crossfade, a feature that&rsquo;s designed to more smoothly transition between songs. It also includes AirPlay improvements[&#8230;] It still claims that lots of the albums I&rsquo;ve purchased from Apple aren&rsquo;t available. Previously: audioOS 18.6 audioOS 18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-09-16T20:29:36Z","apple_news_api_id":"f870a42b-13ed-478f-afa8-956354f159fd","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-09-16T20:29:36Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A-HCkKxPtR4-vqJVjVPFZ_Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2536,2839,2537],"class_list":["post-49288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-audioos","tag-audioos-26","tag-audioos-release"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49290,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49288\/revisions\/49290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}