Old people? The search functionality in Apple Music is a complete disaster when it comes to classical music so I welcome this as a separate app with its own database and search algorithms - as a not that old person that listens to classical music.
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Android Apple Music Beta Code Refers to Unreleased 'Apple Classical' App
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Yeah it is the worst - complete mystery that this could be apple design...Can’t come soon enough. With the current Apple Music app it’s often impossible to even see what a track title is, let alone any details about it. For example, on the album of Elgar’s Enigma Variations all the titles are cut off on the iPhone, making it impossible to tell which track is which.
I forgot about iTunes Match. It costs something like $25/yr, or included with Apple Music. I was one of the people who kept paying for iTunes Match for a year, despite having Apple Music, thinking it was not included (in case there are any more of you out there).
Calling it Apple Match kind of sounds like a dating app.
I will. I don’t do streaming now because it’s track-artist-album and classical just doesn’t work that way. Make it work for deep-cuts classical and I’ll subscribe in a minute.
I’ve tried classical in the Apple world for decades. It’s a big bag of hurt, largely because until now decisions are apparently being made by those who don’t know how big a bag of hurt it is.
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I hope the new classical app is included with existing subscriptions. I also hope it somehow includes an enhanced volume algorithm. Listening to classical music for any length of time causes a lot of “is the music still playing” and “crap I need to turn that down.” I wouldn’t pay for this just to exist in its own app, but if it’s included I am excited. I like to have classical playing in the house.
Cool. I prefer better classical music in Apple Music, perhaps run by the gang at Primephonic, but a separate app is also good.
Maybe a good way to start liking classical is listening to radio stations playing it. CBC radio in Canada has "Tempo" and "About Time" to help newbies get some appreciation for classical music.
Maybe a good way to start liking classical is listening to radio stations playing it. CBC radio in Canada has "Tempo" and "About Time" to help newbies get some appreciation for classical music.
That describes a LOT in life. Way too many things are decided by people who don't have any stake in said thing.
Great point! Have you seen the app Concertino? It’s got a pretty expansive selection and organized by all manner of methods (period from medieval to 21st century—including film scores, composer, region) and a bunch of curated stations. I wonder if Apple’s will be along those same lines?
I see your points too, so will be curious to see what Apple can come up with, even though I still find this approach of having three separate apps fragmented. The UI of Apple Music and Apple Podcasts apps are already inconsistent and they will be adding the third one to the mix? Let’s see when it’s out. ?
Maybe they could make an Audio app that has an up-next feature similar to the TV app. That would allow each app to customize its UX for the content presented but still give the user a simplified single-consumption experience. I know for our house if it’s not integrated into Up-Next we forget we even have the streaming platform.
Something I discovered in the last year or two in the Apple Music app (not the service) is that you can group works together, and show individual movements.
Barely a dent in what people want, but it's something.
Barely a dent in what people want, but it's something.
… I guess this explains why the Apple Music apps for iPhone and Mac have been so unattended. Classic Apple, do something, do something else and ignore the flaws with the thing before. Yuck. This is a nice opportunity to mention that Jobs would have done some things differently.
Technically Apple doesn’t sell Lossless capable devices apart from the Pro Max connected to with a cable and maybe some cabled Beats.
Well, technically technically iPhone, iPad and Mac speakers count, but no.
I was more talking about spatial audio as far as needing special hardware. Free lossless was just them putting the financial boots to Spotify.
I don't see them doing the classical music service for less than like $5 on top of Apple Music or $10 standalone.
all ways to use Apple Music suck ?. The iOS App is worse than the Mac app, which is terrible. Continuity of features is a sht show, too. There are few things that get me mad like Apple Music does.[rant incoming, don’t waste your time]
Also, the fact that Apple ****** dares to touch the music in my library stinks. One version of a song is replaced by another, without any notice. Somebody’s Watching Me from the original album was removed and replaced with some other version, for example. Sometimes entire albums are replaced by the same songs from compilations and best off albums, stupid sht. Some 30-50 songs in my 2k song library have been changed, I hate it and haven’t even found them all yet. Some with sound wise inferior versions. Other songs aren’t being changed, but censored. It’s impossible to get some classic hip hop tracks without weird noises for every time someone mentions crime or drugs. I look at it as censorship of historical records. Are we still acting as if there have never been ghettos in the US? My music ain’t your business, Cupertino. Screw Apple Music for stuff like this.