Apple Music Classical Now Available in China, Japan, and More Countries

[MacRumors]

Apple Music Classical is now available in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao, fulfilling a rollout promise to the regions that Apple made earlier this month.

Apple Music Classical first launched in most other countries in March 2023. The ‌Apple Music‌ Classical app offers ‌Apple Music‌ subscribers access to over five million classical music tracks, including new high-quality releases, in addition to hundreds of curated playlists, thousands of exclusive albums, and other features like composer bios and deep dives on key works.

The app offers a simpler interface for interacting with classical music specifically. Unlike the existing ‌Apple Music‌ app, ‌Apple Music‌ Classical allows users to search by composer, work, conductor, catalog number, and more. Users can get more detailed information from editorial notes and descriptions.

The app can be pre-ordered now on the App Store in the above regions. In the U.S., a standard Apple Music subscription costs $10.99 per month.

In 2021, Apple announced that it had purchased the classical music streaming service Primephonic and would be folding it into ‌Apple Music‌ via a new app dedicated to the genre.

Article Link: Apple Music Classical Now Available in China, Japan, and More Countries

 

[MrCrowbar]

Let's hope this isn't the usual disaster. Gapless playback used to work in iTunes until it didn't, all my classical music in the library got more and more messed up because, for some reason, having the same piece interpreted by various "artists" doesn't fit into the metadata well.

 

[tomtad]

But still not on Mac

 

[arkitect]

But still not on Mac

It just does not seem to be something Apple is interested in.
No idea why.

Since my Mac is connected to a far superior sound system than my iPhone (and I spend more time listening to music on my Mac while working) it would be a lot more useful.

 

[Bustycat]

App Store here now promotes Apple Music Classical as well.

 

[Bustycat]

But still not on Mac

Music Classical is just a catalog. When adding an album on Music Classical, the Music app adds the identical one as well.

 

[cflem]

How this still isn't in CarPlay or on the Mac is such a baffling thing to me... Apple can make it compatible in literally minutes using current architecture... This kids of stuff about the modern Apple drives me nuts.

 

[spazzcat]

How this still isn't in CarPlay or on the Mac is such a baffling thing to me... Apple can make it compatible in literally minutes using current architecture... This kids of stuff about the modern Apple drives me nuts.

Apple bought this app and reskinned it; the original app didn't have CarPlay. Based on the update this week that got pulled CarPlay is finally coming.

 

[VisceralRealist]

I'm sure when asked why it's not on the Mac, they'll say "we tried it and it looked weird". Adapting it to CarPlay will be easy because it's tied to iOS. Creating a Mac app seems to be especially challenging for some reason.

 

[McKodiak]

Apple Classical is an app that searches Apple Music's classical music based on much finer classical music driven search criteria. Any music played, added to library or playlist from within Apple Classical is added to Apple Music. I do believe the Mac will get an Apple Classical app but it isn't a must have. You can still find the same music in Apple Music or use your iPhone to search in Apple Classical and add to your library.

 

[cflem]

Apple bought this app and reskinned it; the original app didn't have CarPlay. Based on the update this week that got pulled CarPlay is finally coming.

Where did you see CarPlay is coming - the app update didn't say anything of the sort?

 

[spazzcat]

Where did you see CarPlay is coming - the app update didn't say anything of the sort?

An update that come out this week had CarPlay, but got pulled right after. There is a story on MR.

 

[SkydiveGuy]

Still no CarPlay.

 

[CarAnalogy]

It just does not seem to be something Apple is interested in.
No idea why.

Since my Mac is connected to a far superior sound system than my iPhone (and I spend more time listening to music on my Mac while working) it would be a lot more useful.

“It” being the Mac as its own platform, I agree.

It’s really sad but it seems the Mac has been reduced to a third tier iOS device after the iPhone and iPad.

Read the release notes for any version of iOS in the last many years and they are word for word identical on the Mac except for missing features. They may be still working on the Mac as its own platform but they sure don’t talk about it, and even all their own first party apps are going the lazy Catalyst port route. If they can even be arsed to do that which apparently they can’t.

 

[svish]

Wonder why some services take a long time to be rolled out in international markets.

 

[nicho]

Wonder why some services take a long time to be rolled out in international markets.

Translation (of content and metadata) is sometimes the issue.

 

[akynazh931]

Mac version🥲🥲