tvOS and MacOS are requirements for this. I am always surprised that a company as wealthy as Apple can't support their own ecosystem at the same time.
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Apple Music Classical: 15 Things You Need to Know About the New App
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And then we have something like this.
Where does one place a mezzo-soprano who also whistles?
If she’s backed up by the Man With No Name, wherever she wants.Where does one place a mezzo-soprano who also whistles?
Also thinking of Michel Legrand’s terrific score for “The Thomas Crown Affair.” It’s got a full orchestra with a jazz harpischord solo. File it under “orchestral soundtracks with harpsichord jazz”?
Once again, Apple offers Lossless and Hi-Res Lossless without the ability to stream to a device capable of decoding at that level. When will Apple customers get to hear true Lossless (via AirPlay 3, compatibility with Roon, or another option short of a wired DAC)?
New features and better organisation is welcome but I really see no benefit to this being a separate app, especially if a Mac and iPad app aren't coming along at the same time. These features should just be added to the existing app regardless of genre.
Great post. As a side note, something HAS to be done about metadata in the classical music realm when it comes to the digital world, and that goes for all the music streaming services and digital stores. It´s crazy that when you select a particular record YOU CAN´T SEE most of the time the full name of the pieces, because they´re truncated. Crazy. That shows that digital music stores were created with popular music in mind (not that this is bad, I love music of all genres, but you get my point).
I Apple Music classical is a step in the right direction in this particular area alone, it will be extremely welcome.
I hear you.
The Apple TV and the Homepods support lossless up to 24/48. Is something.
As for Apple own Airpods, they´re Bluetooth, and the protocol currently simply does not allow for an untouched passtrough of a FLAC or ALAC file. It´s simply not possible.
As for streaming lossless via Airplay 2 to a capable device, the protocol allows it (up to 24/48), but for some reason is currently capped for Apple Music DRM´d files (and specifically Apple Music streams, it does indeed stream lossless from Deezer, Tidal or Amazon Music).
It´s very weird, and I hope this artificial limitation will end soon.
Very cool but not a fan of it being a separate app. That’s my only nitpick. Music should be in music. Should’ve been a separate “tab” at the bottom if anything.
I’m sure they had a good reason for this choice though I guess.
I’m sure they had a good reason for this choice though I guess.
I’m hopeful the Mac version is coming. And I’m happy they’re not rushing out a slipshod swiftUI cross-platform app that ignores all of the UI conventions that make for a good desktop app. Makes sense to launch the service on iPhone to reach the biggest audience, and release Mac, iPad and tv apps when they’re good and ready.
Although I don't listen to a lot of classical music, I love film scores and have them in my library. As a musician, I wonder if classical is so different it deserves to be segregated from all the other genres in this way.
They apparently keep all teams separate and rarely let each other know what’s going on.
Oh to be a fly on the wall or better yet - turn it into a reality TV show.
> There is no version of Apple Music Classical for iPadOS, making it an iPhone-only app
That is ridiculous. Most classical music listeners I know (and I know many) take their music listening very seriously ... which means playing over hi-fidelity equipment, and not using an iPhone for control ... and often custom D/A conversion. Running off an iPad would be the minimum (even for size of visual controL) ... and if it works on iPadOS (which it apparently does not), then it should run from an M1 or M2 silicon Mac too anyway.
That is ridiculous. Most classical music listeners I know (and I know many) take their music listening very seriously ... which means playing over hi-fidelity equipment, and not using an iPhone for control ... and often custom D/A conversion. Running off an iPad would be the minimum (even for size of visual controL) ... and if it works on iPadOS (which it apparently does not), then it should run from an M1 or M2 silicon Mac too anyway.
Come on, that´s not fair. It´s like saying that classical composers stole pieces from one another. Not really true.
Not a lot these days, I have most of the stuff I want.
I can also do that while I am watching TV, so the time component is irrelevant.
When you buy anything 2nd hand that is true. 2nd hand car, manufacturer gets zero, house, builder gets zero, computer, phone, books, furniture etc etc etc.
I support some people via Patreon as I appreciate their YouTube channels , they get a hell of a lot more that way especially when Youtube demonetises their video.
Even the top rated artists make most of their money from liver performances. CDs are the money makers for the music industry, as is streaming.
Speaking of the music app, it's annoying that the iOS ecosystem starts to play music when Bluetooth or usb is connected even when no app has been launched and to stop it you have to launch the app that is playing music to close and stop it.
Thanks for posting, and most enjoyable. And I love the whistling wah-wah woman’s role. Given the soprano on the balcony, the whistler can be anywhere there is a microphone.And then we have something like this.
Where does one place a mezzo-soprano who also whistles?
I agree, it's a porous boundary. Ideally it would all be one big pile in one big happy app. But Apple's had two decades to make classical work in their ecosystem, and it very clearly doesn't. If a new and separate app is what it takes, I'd rather have that than the current mess.
Edit: here's a good example of that porosity.
That's an arrangement of a creepy song by Randy Newman that appeared, amazingly, on the same album as "Short People" long before he started doing film scores. This is a million miles from "You've Got a Friend in Me."
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I can hear Falco in my head right now 🤣
What if it's a "classical" composition performed by a non-classical ensemble, like ELP's rendition of Mussorgski's Pictures at an Exhibition?
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Terrible moving forward. There should be an iPadOS app before Android, or at least developed/released roughly at the same time as Android.
The iPadOS should not come as an afterthought AFTER Android. If Apple does that, it tells the world the iPadOS is a low garbage priority within the entire Apple ecosystem.