Same here. I like some classical music but hate some of it (as with any kind of music), and I'm hoping to learn more through this kind of curation.
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Apple Music Classical Comes to iPad
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If you searched for and listened to a lot of classical music you would know. The gglockner post #50 in this thread also provides some good insight.
Can’t macOS run iPad apps? Probably not optimized for a desktop screen but it should work in the meantime, no?
True enough, a radio station is not a playlist. However, more to the point, your classical listening being "considerably" different to Sirius programming is just the point. Hear something new (to you). Who knows, you might get a whole different rabbit hole to fall into! I sure did!
Well, for one, classical music aficionados have always been significant in the music world (the CD format does seem to have been intended in part for classical, and most reel-to-reel sales were probably classical), making stuff easier for them helps establish a captive market. Two, as other people have pointed out in this thread, classical music differs from pop music in that composer is usually more important than performer (in pop music, you generally care more about getting a specific version of a song, that’s not really the case with classical music), and you’re far more likely to listen to a work straight through than to shuffle songs. So, from a discovery perspective, having an app tailored for classical music does make sense. Heck, there are a couple of music streaming services that focus just on classical, so there’s a market for the app.
ARM Macs can run iOS and iPadOS apps if the developer allows it. This app is not available unfortunately. Apple could make a Catalyst version of it though if they just wanted to make a straight conversion.
Classical music has driven many technical developments over the years. In addition to the ones you mention, also on cassette tapes, improved tape formulae (Type II, Type IV) and other enhancements were commercially mostly seen in classical releases that have a wider dynamic range than most popular music and is thus more sensitive to background noise. Tapes were often seen as superior to vinyl records because they had a longer playtime and didn't require breaking longer pieces up as much as a record did. It's indeed not the biggest market, but it's certainly a strong one.
That is unfortunate. Hmm maybe they didn’t bother because the native Mac version is imminent. 🤞
Hopefully. I particularly like classical music while I'm working at my Mac, so it makes the most sense for me to have it there.
All of which why I think it is a licensing issue not a coding issue that has kept this app to the iPhone to this point (and not available via CarPlay).
Maybe, but I don't understand why there would be a problem bringing it to the iPad at least. I've hade the iPhone app running on my iPad since day 1, so it's not like iPads have been entirely out of the picture.
I've been using it on my iPad from the beginning. Though it is incredibly improved now. Playlists don't work yet though (can't reproduce songs in a playlist I created with the same movement from different performances).
Perhaps for listeners who don’t mind being spoon-fed their music.
You seem so smart, yet haven’t read the countless responses over the months since rollout that explain this very issue.
Sure, once you reach a certain age, all you want to hear is what you liked when you were 14-23 YO. I'm speculating you've already arrived at that point.
You're not being "spoon fed" music. You're being presented with options to hear music you may not have heard before, possibly an entire genre you didn't know anything about. And you I bet you know what to do if you don't like what you're hearing on a given channel at a given moment.