iPhone phone only….not for me unfortunately. This looks so half baked and rushed. Why no iPad or desktop? I have to think a huge number of potential listeners are using good dacs and other high end gear. I was so looking forward to this.
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Apple Music Classical Begins Launching for iPhone Users Around the World
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Ummm, it is the 28th in those countries. 🤔
Hello US author/editor. You're not the only country in the world.
You can get lossless through the lightning connector: https://benmcmurry.com/2022/05/06/listening-to-apple-lossless-on-the-cheap/
It’s not perfect but it can work.
Personally, I use the the lightning to 3.5mm adapter and pipe that into an amp/DAC. I have done extensive blind listening tests and can’t tell the difference between that and a “purer” HiFi setup through my Windows-based desktop.
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I want it on Apple TV!
Are you a fan of the film "Amadeus"?Woo hoo! Exciting news. So many people are eagerly waiting for this. Let me play some classical Mozart! 🎶🎵
It was worth the wait! I can actually read all the information on each song at a glance, Apple Music feels claustrophobic on comparison. I noticed musical theatre albums appear in there but that's okay I guess they fit the theme of classical music.
The issue isn’t the interface, the issue is the data. The best search interface in the world will give you a crap experience if it’s searching crap metadata database. There is no comprehensive, consistent metadata database over all the genres. Apple bought one specifically for classical when it bought Primephonic.
Putting the same details in the general app would only make everyone see how the metadata is at best uneven and at worst simply wrong.
I don't have the app yet but I did want to get notified when I did get the app. I wonder what classical music I will listen to first. I'm not really all that big on classical, but maybe I can get an appreciation for it.
An inspiring gif, perhaps?Apple needs to update the Apple Music Classical App. This current one is too modern. Something like this?
As a new subscriber to Apple Music, I find "Composer" completely useless in the Apple Music app. I've currently added about 40 albums, with a handful of classical composers, but they're swallowed alive by no fewer than 30 permutations of "Sade Adu" and her bandmates, not to mention dozens of others. No one finds this useful. I solved it in my voluminous local music collection by deleting the composer meta tag from all but classical composers. I can partly solve it in Apple Music with a smart playlist, but the sorting when I view by Composers is by first name, so Mozart is under the "W"'s. This is so dumb. I hope Apple Classical improves on this, but I mostly want to use it on my PC and Apple TV, and it apparently won't be available for a while. Anyone know if there will at least be a web portal?
We'd all be hammered in short order. I assume these folks are trolling now.
It's pretty telling that displaying the iTunes Store link is optional in the Apple Music app.
That’s my guy.
"Classical Mozart"? Is there another kind of Mozart music? BTW, I'm trying to remember what name is attached to his last Symphony. Do you recall it?Woo hoo! Exciting news. So many people are eagerly waiting for this. Let me play some classical Mozart! 🎶🎵
It looks absolutely fine to me. I also don't spend my time starring at icons. I'd rather look at the content.
Yup. Every time a thread appears for the classical app, the classical music and Apple haters emerge as if from a cocoon.
I believe that was the “Straight Outta Salzburg” symphony featuring Cardi Salieri.
I agree with you, but I feel like this is a band-aid approach to the problem, when the real solution is to crack down on poor metadata. I know it's tough when it's provided by thousands of different people, and none of them work for apple, but they do manage to be strict about implementing all sorts of rules for developers submitting to the App Store, I'm sure they could figure out a way to police metadata quality in Apple Music for Artists, or by working with third-party suppliers.
Even outside of music, it's been a problem for years. So many TV shows have incorrect airdates and have had them for 10+ years because some guy got paid next to nothing for a sucky data entry job and it reflects in the metadata.
Even now, you get lots of podcasts with unreadable titles that start with crap like "S2 E4" even though Apple's been pushing podcasters to use metadata for stuff like that for a while now.
Maybe it's time to have a style guide for Music, Podcasts, TV, etc. and make it clear that content with poor metadata may be unlisted from the platform and only reinstated when the problems are fixed.
Apple’s got one for music (google Apple Music Style Guide). How stringently they enforce it for new entries, I couldn’t say. And any effort to repair bad metadata for ye olde tracks of olde? No sign of it.