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Apple Music Classical Now Available on CarPlay [Removed]

MacRumors said:
Apple Music Classical was updated today with CarPlay support, which will allow users to access the app from their vehicle's infotainment screen when an iPhone is connected. However, the app does not appear to be functional yet when opened.
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I wonder if it requires iOS 17.3 coming shortly as others have guessed?
 
ELman said:
If these two apps are separate why does the music I select in the classical app show up as recently added section in the music app? And it doesn't show up in the classical app.
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Because Apple Music is a huge mess and has been for years.

I have albums in my Recently Played list, where when I select them and click on Show Complete Album, Apple Music will actually take me to a completely different album. By the same artist, but still. It's totally messed up.
 
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hm42 said:
I'm using Dragonfly as an external USB DAC with my iPhone. It colour encodes the bit rate when listening.
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How are you defining lossless? If the light is green (44.1 kHz) it could still be lossless delivering an uncompressed CD bitrate.

Apple has developed its own lossless audio compression technology called Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC). In addition to AAC, the entire Apple Music catalog is now also encoded using ALAC in resolutions ranging from 16-bit/44.1 kHz (CD Quality) up to 24-bit/192 kHz.

About lossless audio in Apple Music - Apple Support

Learn about lossless audio in Apple Music and how to turn it on or off for your device.
support.apple.com support.apple.com
 
HDFan said:
How are you defining lossless? If the light is green (44.1 kHz) it could still be lossless delivering an uncompressed CD bitrate.

Apple has developed its own lossless audio compression technology called Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC). In addition to AAC, the entire Apple Music catalog is now also encoded using ALAC in resolutions ranging from 16-bit/44.1 kHz (CD Quality) up to 24-bit/192 kHz.

About lossless audio in Apple Music - Apple Support

Learn about lossless audio in Apple Music and how to turn it on or off for your device.
support.apple.com support.apple.com
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I'm comparing the same album that says "hi-res lossless". On Apple Music the led is Magenta (96 kHz). The same album played thru Classical app and the light is Green (44.1kHz).
 
onenorth said:
Just tried it. The Apple Music Classical crashes in CarPlay (wired connection).
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Crashes on wireless CarPlay in my vehicle. I'll restart my iPhone and see if that does the trick. (regular old Apple Music works fine as always on the phone and via CarPlay)

EDIT: restarting the phone (iPhone 15) (and the car) and it still crashes. Alerting Apple via Support
 
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appletvbob said:
Crashes on wireless CarPlay in my vehicle. I'll restart my iPhone and see if that does the trick. (regular old Apple Music works fine as always on the phone and via CarPlay)

EDIT: restarting the phone (iPhone 15) (and the car) and it still crashes. Alerting Apple via Support
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The app is also freezing on my iPhone even after restarting it. It is super buggy, showing some non-classical purchases and playlists from the Music app and also losing album art, song and artist info on the now playing screen.

I am just using the Classical app to find music, then I favorite it so I can play it from the Music app instead.
 
onenorth said:
The app is also freezing on my iPhone even after restarting it. It is super buggy, showing some non-classical purchases and playlists from the Music app and also losing album art, song and artist info on the now playing screen.

I am just using the Classical app to find music, then I favorite it so I can play it from the Music app instead.
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iOS 17.3 is out now. See if it works better with this Classical update.
 
Realityck said:
iOS 17.3 is out now. See if it works better with this Classical update.
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So far so good with 17.3 but I haven't tried CarPlay again.

Also I just realized that Classical doesn't have a shuffle button so for playlists that are shuffle-able I still need the Music app.

Edit to add Classical still has Carly Simon in my purchased music list. Everything else is classical music.
 
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jvcoorey said:
They’ve just released an update for Apple Music Classical - Version 1.2.1. That should fix it!
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Nope. Go back and read the article. I wish people would stop posting incorrect information based upon their wishes and hopes.
 
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RedWeasel said:
Because Apple Music is a huge mess and has been for years.

I have albums in my Recently Played list, where when I select them and click on Show Complete Album, Apple Music will actually take me to a completely different album. By the same artist, but still. It's totally messed up.
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Additionally, “classical” or so-called “serious” music is classified and sorted by a much wider range of variables than pop music. It requires a far more capable tagging and searching mechanism or people won’t be able to find the performances they want.

Apple Music itself is a total disaster. It’s impossible to search with any kind of granularity, the results themselves are very limited, their pre-loaded categories are also pathetically limited, the smart playlist function (by far the most useful thing in Apple’s music management system) has been basically broken for over a decade, home sharing is amazingly slow ... if it works at all. I mean, it goes on and on and on.

Apple Classical could go a long way towards fixing it, if they use it as the basis of a future Apple Music app.
 
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erinsarah said:
I have pretty much the same question...I listen to the "My Station" playlist often in Apple Music, and after listening to the Classical app a couple of times suddenly "My Station" is populated with a number of classical selections. Nothing against classical music, but I did not ask for this to happen.
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There's not enough separation between the apps. If I'm listening to pop / rock music on shuffle I don't want to hear a violin concerto.
 
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