Apple Acquires Classical Music Service Primephonic, Will Launch Dedicated Classical Music App

[skitidetdu]

I still tend to be a "music listener" rather than a "lyrics listener." Even at an opera, I usually have only a passing interest in the plot, and instead am focused on the music itself. There's enough going on that there are different ways of taking it all in, and that's fine.

(To be clear, I'm not trying to suggest that those who listen carefully for lyrics aren't also listening for the music.)

Same. Even as an experienced opera listener (and goer) I have a really hard time hearing the lyrics anyway 😅

 

[Just_another_Fan]

Listening to classical music is a very different experience than listening to modern music. Not in that one is better than the other, but the way the music is made is different. A Jay-Z song is a Jay-Z song, absent maybe a few covers, the artist and the song are tightly coupled. With classical music (which actually covers about 7 periods going back 1500 years until the present) the same composition can be performed by a wide variety of orchestras, ensembles, etc. I might prefer Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture as performed by the London Phillharmonic in 1995, where as you might prefer the same but the 2007 performance, or the New York Philharmonic instead. Some of the criteria for searching and sorting doesn’t map as well to the ones used more mainstream music.
Or you might have a favorite violinist and you want to find performances that include them. An app tailored to classical music can include that type of information that is unlikely to be used/needed for mainstream music.
Classical pieces also tend to be much longer and while they can be broken up into smaller parts, such as different movements, the listening style is going to be less shuffle or playlist based, listening to the entire performance is more common.

So while the regular Apple Music app can, of course, include Classical Music, a dedicated separate app can provide a better experience for people who are more into it. Similar to how you might want a separate audio book app, even though you could technically listen to audio books in the Apple Music app too.

Exactly I have the same problem when searching out classical music well articulated thank you. Hopefully Apple takes notice lol.

 

[Squuiid]

Ugh, no Mac app it seems.

 

[Marco Klobas]

And no iPad (specific) app either.

 

[Stuberman]

Now we will be able to search for and locate classical music wonderfully. And, we will be able to play it on....our AirPods??!! How sad. Great search, lousy playback.

Of course Apple isn't speedy about releasing products and features. Continuity of experience doesn't seem to be a high priority for the company. We spent around seven years without being able to get an Apple monitor and finally have the the Studio Display. Pages was without a mail merge function from the time that Pages 09 was replaced (in 2011 by my recollection) until Pages 12 was released this past year. That is around 11 years without a mail merge feature. I'm hoping that a Mac version will be coming in this decade (ha ha). Then we will be able to actually play in a quality environment the great music that we found on Apple Music Classical.