Apple Music Classical: 15 Things You Need to Know About the New App

[Deflecktor]

Anyone serious about music and audio quality is using an external DAC driven by a computer of some description (PC/Mac/NUC/Roon Core). 90%+ of iPhone music listeners using iPods are on Spotify streaming the latest ****** pop/rap crap. IMO Apple have misjudged their market here.

Agree. But none of that makes Apple money.

AirPods, HomePod speakers or use a s****y dongle are your options. (granted you can get 3rd party speakers/bluetooth headphones.)

Also factor in a lot of non-audiophiles who now think classical music is cool and requires air pod pro max to listen to.

 

[FrankeeD]

I preordered on the iOS store on my phone and when I went to the App Store on my iPad, the Apple Music Classical showed up and said that it would "Play on this iPad" so I'm hoping that's true.

 

[krell100]

Plus Apple AirPlay is limited to 24/48 so any hi-rez content above this (24/96 and 24/192 are common for classical titles) have to be wired via USB to a DAC to get the benefit of the hi-rez content. Apple supply high Rez but don't support it.

 

[tomtad]

Why on earth is this iPhone only!?

 

[Lioness~]

FWIW, The App Store page says it “works on this iPad.

Exactly!

So iPhone only app? No Mac app and no iPad app? Wow, that's a massive fail.

It says on iPad, coming soon, relax ☺️

 

[JosephAW]

Now they need to have an option to hide music genres that you don't want and categories like Apple One and pop singers etc...

 

[dotnet]

That is because, at the time of the artist’s lifetimes, they were called Impressionists as a derisive term.

A bit like “accessible” being a dirty word among modern composers. And they wonder why they don’t sell tickets… 😉

 

[tubular]

A bit like “accessible” being a dirty word among modern composers.

Probably more true fifty years ago than today.

 

[krell100]

It says on iPad, coming soon, relax ☺️

Actually it will be the iPhone version running on an iPad so it isn't designed specifically for the iPad unlike Apple Music which is quite different on each device.

And no Mac app which IMO is the problem.

 

[RaceTripper]

Meh...I use Qobuz with Roon, and stream to Roon endpoints. I can use either my Macbook Air or iPad Pro as a controller (my Roon servers runs on an Intel NUC with ROCK). I'm good with what I have, and I'm sure it will snow in hell before Apple ever opens an API for Roon integration. I certainly don't want to have to use an iPhone as a controller/server to stream content to my Hifi. I'm out (or rather, not even in to begin with).

 

[mavis]

I listen to a lot of classical every night to wind down; so of course my Apple Music Replay lists are dominated by Mozart and such (with Metal inbetween ha ha).
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A separate app will probably(?) stop that from happening.

Punctuated by TOOL. Perfect! ❤️

 

[Lioness~]

Actually it will be the iPhone version running on an iPad so it isn't designed specifically for the iPad unlike Apple Music which is quite different on each device.

And no Mac app which IMO is the problem.

We don’t know yet how it will be when launched. They have a few things to work on still, as we've noticed.

Looking forward to this.

 

[sleeptodream]

Now they need to have an option to hide music genres that you don't want and categories like Apple One and pop singers etc...

This, my god YES. I’d love to be able to get rid of the Listen Now, Browse, and Radio sections altogether, I’m sick of being bombarded with top 100 stuff when I listen to none of it.

Plus some of the album art for the stuff that comes up on the Browse tab etc is honestly like, gross. Idc if artists want to have semi-explicit cover art, but part of the price you should pay for that is your album doesn’t get promoted in places like the Apple new music section 🤷🏼‍♀️ Apple I love you, but if you’re gonna sell out at least don’t be a part of the degradation of our society, eh?

 

[Analog Kid]

Very true. Sadly, music history has a severe western bias.

I look forward to Apple Music Gamelan in particular...

 

[iGeneo]

As previously posted.. so many people concerned about this classical music app... that will never use the classical music app...

 

[tlnargi]

As a classical music lover, and one who's extremely picky when it comes to the actual performance, I'm very excited to hear this.
I wonder how (and if) this will integrate with our existing music libraries. Can I use this app to search for a particular recording of a particular work, and then, once I find it, can I add it to my existing music library? Or will it use its own separate library and we'll have to switch from one app to the other when we want to listen to different genres?

And how will it work with Siri?

 

[Halver_Rook]

I am looking forward to this, but I really, really, would like an iPadOS version (I cannot understand why there isn‘t one?) and a version for TvOS because I often like to stream music from my AppleTV.

Let us hope that the initial release for iPhone only is then later extended!

Apple Music Classical is available on iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, and tvOS.

 

[Sasparilla]

This is really nice (just part of Apple Music), have a feeling this will be quite a popular app and having it broken out by itself will really be useful....

 

[davemacdo]

It always irks me how people use "Classical Music" when describing symphonic music.

Baroque music was from 1600 to the death of J. S. Bach in 1750
Classical music was from 1750 to around 1825.
Romantic music was from 1825 to around 1900.
Impressionist music kind of overlaps here from around 1890 to around 1930.
From 1900 onward, we have a bunch of different, overlapping eras (Impressionism, Expressionism, Neoclassical, etc).

Again, it just irks me. Nothing more, and I know I'm in the minority on this one. I want to try the app, btw.

I have a doctorate in classical music and I’m here to tell you that you’re deeply wrong. Capital-C Classical is the specific period that is mostly before the Romantic and mostly after the Baroque. Lowercase-c classical refers to the larger tradition that includes music well before the Baroque and well after the Romantic. The only people who say things like this are dilettantes trying to show off and or put other people down.

(And for what it’s worth, all the periods overlap, not just the ones you describe. It’s a joke among scholars that people think the Baroque ended the moment Bach took his last breath, as though that was a significant occasion or something. Bach was not terribly well known in his lifetime, and he’s mostly famous now as the result of Beethoven propaganda, which is a genuinely fascinating subject!)

 

[krell100]

Apple Music Classical is available on iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, and tvOS.

Er, no. iPhone app only that will run on iPad.

 

[RaceTripper]

Er, no. iPhone app only that will run on iPad.

I thought the article was clear that the app is iOS only, so the only thing that's running on iPad or mac (silicon-only) is the iPhone app. That's almost as lame as the UX failure of the Magic Mouse 2. LOL

But if there's no way to stream it natively to my Hifi over my ethernet LAN, the whole idea is really pretty dumb anyway.

 

[Choco Taco]

Finally. I listen to a lot of classical and it's garbage in its current form in the Apple Music app.

 

[RaceTripper]

Finally. I listen to a lot of classical and it's garbage in its current form in the Apple Music app.

Try Qobuz. I've been listening to classical for 50 years, and I mostly play it on vinyl, but when I want to hear something that is on digital media then Qobuz is great for classical (and jazz), especially if you have a system that can take advantage of hi-res audio.

 

[MichaelDroste]

I'm glad it's coming but hoped it was a separate lower price as this is all I want.

Fritz Reiner and the CSO or Solti are my favorites....

 

[racer1441]

Stream to discover, own to own.

I just use YouTube for that one off.