S23 riff-raff here. Just subscribed to Classical and am pretty happy so far!Apple users are (sniff) far more cultured and have other ways to listen to classical music.
They do this as a way to reach out to the heathens.
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Apple Music Classical Now Available for Android
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Search works in a different way with classical, because classical music is organized a different way. Trying to find specific classical things using Apple Music is an exercise in uselessness. Not so in Apple Classical Music.
To do that you also need good metadata. The valuable thing Apple bought when they bought Primephonic wasn't the technology or the code, it was a massive, detailed, accurate classical metadata library. If there's a corresponding resource for electronic music, maybe Apple could buy it too, but without accurate metadata, search will always stink.
It’s available for Google/Android TV but yeah, annoying it’s not available for Android phones/tablets yet.
Although not optimised/customised, it does support landscape mode on Android tablets...
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Come on! The biggest tech company in the world can’t release an app for all of its own platforms at launch date?
There’s zero excuse for that. Because now they are admitting it takes a long time to get it right for each and every platform.
Or there’s only one guy working on it. The guy from the iTunes Remote app.
There’s zero excuse for that. Because now they are admitting it takes a long time to get it right for each and every platform.
Or there’s only one guy working on it. The guy from the iTunes Remote app.
Hmm? Apple Music has been available on Windows since day one via iTunes. They just released a new app that does the same thing.
Still no offline downloading of music? Very strange. Then again apple maps still can not download offline maps ( like google maps)
You can download songs in Apple Music. I find music in AM Classical, add it to my library and then download in AM if I want it offline. That’s a little clunky but it keeps everything together that I want to keep, rather than having downloads across two apps.
I’m not saying that’s the best way to do that. The libraries and listening history are linked across apps so it seems like it would be fairly straightforward to manage downloads from either app.
I think Apple Music Classical is great for a classical music listener.
Just in this moment the third movement of Mozart's Piano Trio in B-flat Major is playing on my paired HomePod minis in my home office.
While I understand the early foray into Android, I really do miss the app on the other Apple platforms, especially macOS.
Only grudge I hold is actually the integration with standard Apple Music. I think they should really have kept the apps completely separate. In addition to Classical Music, I also love Rock 'n' Roll Music in the broader sense with forays into Pop, Country and even Metal. In the past, I primarily used Apple Music for that. Now the Replay Playlists and Recommendations are kind of messed up and it's a mishmash of Classical Music and all the other stuff I listen to, which kind of doesn't add up.
In my 2023 Replay playlist U2's Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses is now followed by Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major, First Movement. What the hell?
I just wish, they had tied all the classical stuff to the Classical Music app and all the rest to Apple Music. At least, it is not a crossover into the other direction, Bruce Springsteen's Moonlight Motel appearing in my Beethoven Piano Sonata playlist right next to the Moonlight Sonata would have been a bit much - even though I likewise appreciate both artists.
Just in this moment the third movement of Mozart's Piano Trio in B-flat Major is playing on my paired HomePod minis in my home office.
While I understand the early foray into Android, I really do miss the app on the other Apple platforms, especially macOS.
Only grudge I hold is actually the integration with standard Apple Music. I think they should really have kept the apps completely separate. In addition to Classical Music, I also love Rock 'n' Roll Music in the broader sense with forays into Pop, Country and even Metal. In the past, I primarily used Apple Music for that. Now the Replay Playlists and Recommendations are kind of messed up and it's a mishmash of Classical Music and all the other stuff I listen to, which kind of doesn't add up.
In my 2023 Replay playlist U2's Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses is now followed by Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major, First Movement. What the hell?
I just wish, they had tied all the classical stuff to the Classical Music app and all the rest to Apple Music. At least, it is not a crossover into the other direction, Bruce Springsteen's Moonlight Motel appearing in my Beethoven Piano Sonata playlist right next to the Moonlight Sonata would have been a bit much - even though I likewise appreciate both artists.
Sure lots of users but will they use it? I sniffed around the Classical app on my iPhone enough to determine I don't have that much interest in using it on such a small screen. Waiting for the iPad version.
Meanwhile the song I played yesterday from Music on my Mac doesn't show up in play history on my iPhone. Not sure who is thinking what at Apple.
My Mac is my home stereo. A shame I can’t use this app unless I stream it from my phone.
If they charged $12 a month for it you can bet they’d have done it years ago.
Phil Schiller comes out of semi-retirement to take the stage and say…”do you guys not have iPhones?!”
Apparently even Apple knows there’s more money in Android than there is in the iPad and Mac market…sadly…
Okay, fair enough, but what about macOS? It's basically irrelevant for me as an iPhone-only app.