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Apple Explains Why It Launched an iPhone App Dedicated to Classical Music
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Hopefully. But for now there's a workaround. "
Apple Music Classical was built exclusively for mobile and is available on iOS with Android coming soon.
Classical fans who want to listen on their MacBook, iPad, or in their car can open Apple Music to enjoy the tracks, albums, and playlists they saved in Apple Music Classical, thanks to the shared music library." From apples homepage.
Yes because as we all know only old people like beautiful art But my teenagers didnt get the memo and listen to Mozart and Kanye often the same day.
Lol my friend’s 21 year old daughter is a classical violinist. She’s got an amazing career ahead of her. I’m sure she will love this app, too.
I’m sure they’re not a majority among their peers, but children and teens listen to classical music, too.I listen to it but I really am completely ignorant and uncultured and couldn’t tell you a thing about classical music or opera. Just because I enjoy listening to something doesn’t mean I know anything about it. I came to my appreciation late in life and though I try to look up information on what I’m listening to, I forget it all five minutes later.
Thanks for this review. I've been thinking about subscribing to iDagio (I have the app but haven't used it much), but I was waiting for Apple Classical to launch, to see what it's like. It looks like I'm subscribing to iDagio.
The only benefit to subscribing to Apple Classical over iDagio is that I would get all the other genres in Apple Music. Oh well. :-|
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I've been listening to classical music on and off for 45 years (now more on than off), since I was 18. I like lots of other music, from rock (60's to '80s) to jazz to classic R&B and soul, some country (older stuff), and New Wave from the '80s.
Not sure which is the meaning of this. I listen to Baroque music since my 13. I was naturally attracted to it with the onset of puberty. Stylus Phantasticus for organ is one of my all time preferences. This is not age-related.
Yeah, now I’m officially an old person at the ripe age of 31 but I started buying “classical” records in my teens as well. It’s just music, my tastes never knew any boundaries for genre or year. Music in all forms has always been my entire life in one way or another.
For those commenting on download for offline use, just realised I cannot do that on the normal Music app either.
Something changed?
Something changed?
I share your sentiment, HOWEVER, not going to happen, at least until they grow up and become adults. I don't think I could get my 13 year old daughter to even add the app, and she's been playing flute for 3 years.
Wait a minute, I probably could get her to add the app, but I would have to take away all her creature comforts and confine her to her room for a week, but then DHS would come knocking for child endangerment. /s #snowflakes
It's music. They're not that different. What is missing is a correct schema that groups all cases. Pop music also has its composers and in many cases they are different people than the performers, not to say the lyrics. A good database should be able to handle all those cases. But this is complex and current streaming services were built from the simplest (mainstream) use cases.
In the same way there are many recordings of the same composition in classical music there are many covers of original songs in other musical styles or live recordings of songs by the same artist. Not to forget remastered editions of the same recording where sometimes is quite interesting to compare or even enjoy in a different way (and this applies to classical and pop or whatever).
Regarding movements in classical music again this is a metadata issue and how this is represented in the app and how the app makes use of the existing metadata. Some progressive rock songs also have movement sections. Approaching this as a classical-only thing is a nice step but does not fix the root of the issue.
I listen to film scores. Not what I would consider "Classical music" but it's orchestral, so I guess it fits. I was pleasantly surprised to see all of my scores neatly organized in Apple Music Classical when first opening the app.
Apple Music and Classical appear to be sharing play count metadata. Given that, it's likely that your music for 2023 will include anything you listened to in either app, even prior to the Classical app's launch.
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I don't think there has been any official announcement or talk about a Mac app, but I'm assuming it'll come by the end of the year?
Or maybe they will make it apart of the macOS Music app -- but I hope not, I can barely search as is right now. Every third search I have to force quit Music and reopen for it to work and nothing has fixed it (restart Mac, restore to factory, new Macs, updates...)
So true, especially considering some of the music dates back hundreds and hundreds of years and I'm assuming none of our grand or great-great-great-great...grandparents were around to enjoy it during the composition time!
I think it’s two things. One is the database scheme and the other the somewhat different structure. Take the usual mp3 file as it’s been around for like forever. It usually holds a single song or a single movement. For the song this is fine but for the movement of a classical work you‘d typically need three or four mp3 files and they need to play in sequence.
There is only little support to combine these files into something that can be handled as a single entity. Simple playback devices - like older car radios - only read the title from the metadata, or worse, from the filename and so traditionally a lot of metadata has been shoehorned into the title field. Using the track field isn’t quite right either because the track tells the position within an album.
In classical music there are almost only covers. The challenge is how to catalog the originals.
It might not be unique to classical music but that is where it is most needed. I just listened to something with Apple music and it told me there are 7 songs. No, there weren’t. There were 4 works consisting of 7 movements.
The difference is you see classical music when you open the app, plenty to start discovering for a novice. Now that there is an app, I'm sure there will be additions the app to support the acquainted
That was one of the first things I checked when I got into my car this morning. Hopefully in the near future.
Not having to download and listen offline is frustrating too.
While I dont have any special knowledge on the subject- I can only imagine that native apps for all their platforms are in the works and probably not far behind. They were already notably late in releasing this app, so if I had to guess, they probably decided to focus on the iPhone app to get it released ASAP and will now take some feedback and usage statistics to craft versions for iPad, Mac, Tv, etc.
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I was so excited about the Classical Music app and now I’m disheartened. The first problem I encountered is that it auto-populated my library with the classical music that existed in Apple Music. This would be fine, except that it randomly included several jazz albums. My attempt to delete those from the Classical Music library led me to the discovery of the worse problem...the libraries for Classical Music and Apple Music are not separate. They are intertwined. So, if I delete the Charles Mingus album from Classical Music...you know...because it’s not CLASSICAL...it deletes it from my Apple Music library. I also discovered that if I add an album in Classical Music, it adds it to my Apple Music. So, my dream of having a separate place to keep and listen to classical music, without bloating my Apple Music library, is squashed. If you know of a way to isolate the libraries and keep them separate, please let me know. Thanks!
Apple today published a support document explaining why it decided to release a standalone Apple Music Classical app for classical music.
In short, Apple says the app was designed to support classical music's complex metadata:Apple offers a longer explanation on a new Apple Music Classical page:The support document provides answers to some other frequently asked questions about the app, which began rolling out today. Much of the information relates to how the Apple Music Classical app integrates with the standard Apple Music app.
Apple also shared a video overview of the app on YouTube:
Apple Music Classical offers over five million classical music tracks and is free to use with a standard Apple Music subscription on iOS 15.4 and later. The app is based on Primephonic, a classical music streaming service that Apple acquired in 2021. The app is available for the iPhone only at launch, with an Android version coming soon.
Article Link: Apple Explains Why It Launched an iPhone App Dedicated to Classical Music
Exactly! The iPhone-only decision is a total mystery to me. I can't remember the last time I listened to music on my iPhone. I always listen on my Mac. Bizarre. Hopefully it turns up for macOS soon, otherwise it's pretty much lost on me. (And yes, I am who actually sees the value of it, and would use it regularly.)