Apple Music Classical Comes to iPad

[lexvo]

If you’ve still got them, re-rip the CDs. Did you do that conversion/match thing Apple offered many years ago now? Don‘t remember the name of it. If you did, maybe something went wrong. I suspect you’ve got precious classical recordings that aren’t even available for streaming. Could be some wonkiness there. Good luck. And I’d call Apple. You never know.

Thanks, I still have the CDs but I don't have a CD/DVD player anymore since I bought a new iMac and sold the old one. I still have my old HiFi CD player but that one is too old to connect to anything except an amplifier.

I tried deleting and re-importing an album from the files I kept on my NAS but that didn't help.

I only have a few recordings that are rare, the rest is pretty standard. So I could search them and put them in my library. A bit tedious and not something I had in mind when I was going to use the Classical app 😊 But probably I will do that when all other options fail.

 

[3xBoom]

You must use something else instead then. Recommendation? You might be aware of an alternative that could be appealing to others.

CDs, tapes and LPs. Works every time.

 

[m828s]

CDs, tapes and LPs. Works every time.

Given that perspective, curious that you’d even drop by, let alone comment.

 

[3xBoom]

Given that perspective, curious that you’d even drop by, let alone comment.

My adherence to working technologies does not preclude my appreciation of new solutions that promise the convenience of having all you want under your fingertips. I'd love to have that and use these techs with my own library. My original comment was on the amazing failure of Apple (and others) to come up with a better solution than they offer at present. If you are happy with the current search, description and management of artists, composers, recording, etc it is your choice to live with a subpar product. For some people, who just want to fill their years with noise, this is the way to go. And yes, in no way I wanted to insult your amazing audio knowledge or anything else for that matter. Have a splendid day and the rest of your life.

 

[wonderings]

Instead of saying 'thanks' people just want more more more. Gimme gimme gimme. Wait people, it’s coming. Geesh. So impatient.

Sounds like an appropriate response to companies that just want to sell more more more with the latest greatest, best version ever.... every year on a variety of products. This is what this type of capitalism inspires, never satisfied, always wanting more and ready to empty the wallet for it, no matter if you can afford it or not.

That being said I am contemplating switching to Apple Music for the Classical. I use Amazon right now, happy with them and whole Echo eco system. Have one in every room so music plays everywhere. Does the Classical app work with the Echo's or am I right in assuming it is all just covered under Apple Music so there is no real need for it to be compartmentalized on the Echo?

 

[gwhizkids]

Sounds like an appropriate response to companies that just want to sell more more more with the latest greatest, best version ever.... every year on a variety of products. This is what this type of capitalism inspires, never satisfied, always wanting more and ready to empty the wallet for it, no matter if you can afford it or not.

That being said I am contemplating switching to Apple Music for the Classical. I use Amazon right now, happy with them and whole Echo eco system. Have one in every room so music plays everywhere. Does the Classical app work with the Echo's or am I right in assuming it is all just covered under Apple Music so there is no real need for it to be compartmentalized on the Echo?

If I recall correctly, I paid exactly 0 dollars for Apple Music Classical

And guess what? There’s nothing wrong with people trying to make money by selling their products. No one is holding a gun to anyone’s head, forcing them to buy the products.

 

[m828s]

My adherence to working technologies does not preclude my appreciation of new solutions that promise the convenience of having all you want under your fingertips. I'd love to have that and use these techs with my own library. My original comment was on the amazing failure of Apple (and others) to come up with a better solution than they offer at present. If you are happy with the current search, description and management of artists, composers, recording, etc it is your choice to live with a subpar product. For some people, who just want to fill their years with noise, this is the way to go. And yes, in no way I wanted to insult your amazing audio knowledge or anything else for that matter. Have a splendid day and the rest of your life.

Thank you for sharing. A lot of people, including me, prefer not to see complaining for complaining’s sake. It can be considered a waste of time to skim and scroll through it. Kind of like the spam we scroll through in our inboxes. The cumulative waste of time in our lives is quite large. Also kind of like being stuck in traffic.

You’ve elaborated now, and I think that makes your contributions to this thread better, if still not generally of much benefit to those of us looking for more than complaints to read.

 

[m828s]

Sounds like an appropriate response to companies that just want to sell more more more with the latest greatest, best version ever.... every year on a variety of products. This is what this type of capitalism inspires, never satisfied, always wanting more and ready to empty the wallet for it, no matter if you can afford it or not.

That being said I am contemplating switching to Apple Music for the Classical. I use Amazon right now, happy with them and whole Echo eco system. Have one in every room so music plays everywhere. Does the Classical app work with the Echo's or am I right in assuming it is all just covered under Apple Music so there is no real need for it to be compartmentalized on the Echo?

Good question. Apple Music can be played through Alexa, but not Apple Music Classical.

I don’t see this as a loss necessarily. The benefits of Apple Music Classical lie in the search function, the tagging metadata that allows for more useful search capabilities, and of course the more in-depth support of all types of classical music in the dedicated app.

When you speak to Alexa, you’re just getting it to play music and not relying on any of that tagging. Given how much trouble Alexa and Siri and all of the others have with understanding complex commands, it’s going to be some time before this becomes a reality as a voice command, I think.

Voice command that includes a specific conductor a specific year a specific recording a specific orchestra, all in one voice command is too complex for the technology to manage right now. And that’s not even taking into consideration all of the crazy pronunciations of western European eastern European Asian and African names, etc. that we would all botch, or that I would botch, at least, as an American, when trying to speak through or to Alexa or Siri.

PS: I’m deliberately ignoring the first paragraph of your post! 😉

 

[BeatCrazy]

Has any using iPad + DAC been able to get Hi-Res Lossless with the Classical app?

I see the indicator on several works, but I can only get 16/44.1. There is no setting to turn on Lossless in the Settings, nor within the app itself.

Plain Apple Music on the iPad works just fine for Hi-Res Lossless, I just tested (and got) 192kHz.

 

[apple fan23]

Am I missing something or can you not have folders in Apple classical (iPhone or iPad)? I have loads of albums saved as playlists, organised in folders in Apple Music on my mac. in Apple Classical they merge into one enormous list in the sidebar! 😱😡 so still using Apple Music on mobile so I can access my folders….. (which contain 100% classical music btw). Tell me I am missing something?

 

[headlessmike]

Has any using iPad + DAC been able to get Hi-Res Lossless with the Classical app?

I see the indicator on several works, but I can only get 16/44.1. There is no setting to turn on Lossless in the Settings, nor within the app itself.

Plain Apple Music on the iPad works just fine for Hi-Res Lossless, I just tested (and got) 192kHz.

It works for me when I use my USB DAC connected to my iPad mini 6, but not on every track. Maybe it’s a licensing issue from specific labels?