I’m just glad they are rolling out what’s ready rather than waiting for each version to be finished. I do wonder how we are to use high rez streams with iOS devices though. I understood Apple sold nothing that could play them.
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Apple Music Classical Now Available for Pre-Order on the App Store, Launches Later This Month
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I'm hoping to see lyrics for all classical vocal music, with side by side translations into a variety of languages. That will make listening to opera, Bach cantatas, and Schubert lieder so much more rewarding. Also, many classical lyrics are in themselves great poetry - consider Schiller's Ode to Joy in Beethoven's Ninth. The lyric translations are almost always to be found in the CD package so this needs to be a key part of Apple Classical. Lyrics for only pop music just doesn't cut it any more.
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I too am really looking forward to discovering more music and learning about it. I. Think this will be just the ticket.
from the article: "It is included for free as part of an Apple Music or Apple One subscription."
Agreed. It worked well for Android. Apple needs to follow their lead and do the same thing.
Wow, at last! Time to redeem my 6 month trial associated to my Beats headphones!
My hope as well. Music for both iOS and MacOS is fairly horrible. So I really hope that this app is solid and that if so, apple will come to their senses and use it as the base of a new, perhaps recombined, music app.
I’d also say that the added metadata features of this app would be equally beneficial to modern music. Electronic and the various decendents of hip hop especially. Unless that is you’re a big fan of track titles like “Song Name feat. So-n-So [Other Guy Remix] 12” Edit [Mixed]” with three separate artists listed.
Gonna go join Calculator and WhatsApp in the iPad shunners club
Can't wait!! Finally! 🥳🥳🥳🤩🤩🤩🎻🎻I only listen to classical music (well, 95%) and this, if it is set up well, would be just wonderful. I am hoping for a Mac app (wired open backs) and a way to put albums (not playlists!) into folders, better search, curated 'new albums' etc etc.
In response to many of the comments on here: tell me you know nothing about classical music without telling me you know nothing about classical music.
Classical can still be categorized as modern music too. It's just vast majority of it is not modern. Will be interesting to see how far that content goes that was created in the 20Th/21st Century. Even Electronic Music can be associated with Classical depending on its musical style.
I'm in the same boat -- there are composers I just barely know about but want to hear more from. Here's one:
Valentyn Silvestrov - Wikipedia
If Apple Classical can clue me in on more works from this guy, then it's done me a solid.
I'd assume classical will continue to be available in the main app as it is now. Those who want features and organization specifically tailored to the unique needs of classical recordings will be able to use this new app.
So you and everyone else who "doesn't understand why this is a separate app" can literally just never download it or think about it again and people who DO want it can use it. Always hilarious how many people have problems with the mere existence of a product they have no need for.
Yes all the info you would get on a CD maybe combined with an IMDb like database would be awesome.
I’m curious how apple will handle post classical music with this. Right now, from a genre standpoint, apple can’t seem to be able to decide if these pieces are classical, post classical, crossover classical, electronic, ambient, etc.
Will soundtracks be included?
Also, I’m guessing that the music itself isn’t tied to whichever app you use to download it? If I add something to my library in one app does it show up in the other? Are playlists shared?
Will soundtracks be included?
Also, I’m guessing that the music itself isn’t tied to whichever app you use to download it? If I add something to my library in one app does it show up in the other? Are playlists shared?
I'm holding my breath for the Kazoo Music Only app.
Well, they're wondering why Apple is making a separate app rather than making the Apple Music app less inadequate for everybody. Which is a fair question if you don't understand classical and therefore don't know that for classical the Apple Music app isn't just bad or awkward or janky but effectively unusable.
I think the point is that some people actually like both classical and contemporary music, (apart from the whole vexed question of 'what is the definition of classical music') don't see why they need a separate App & subscription for each, and/or would prefer to see better tagging and sorting facilities in the regular Music app for dealing with, not just classical music, but anything else that isn't 3 minute shuffle-friendly songs recorded by singer-songwriters.
...it's not as if contemporary music "songs" never have separate composers, performers or producers, never have different versions recorded by different artists, et re-mixed or re-mastered by different "producers" or turn up on multiple live recordings from different gigs, or are never presented as parts/movements, ...or that anybody playing Dark Side of The Moon or side 2 of Hounds of Love on shuffle shouldn't be automatically reported to the relevant authorities for crimes against art.
Oddly enough, I've got a CD of Weird Al doing a revised version of "Carnival of the Animals" composed and performed by Wendy Carlos. Issued by Sony Classical, I'm pretty sure.