Apple Music Classical Now Available on the Web

[MacRumors]

Apple Music Classical is now available on the web at classical.music.apple.com.

Apple Music Classical launched in most countries in March 2023, allowing users with a standard Apple Music subscription to stream more than five million classical music tracks, at no additional cost. Apple Music Classical is based on Primephonic, a classical music streaming service that was acquired by Apple in 2021.

To celebrate Apple Music Classical becoming available on the web, an Apple spokesperson said a new recording of Julius Eastman's Symphony No. 2 and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2 from conductor Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra will be available exclusively on Apple Music Classical for the next six weeks.

Apple Music Classical is also available as an app on the iPhone, iPad, and Android, and it gained CarPlay support last year. There is still no Mac app.

Article Link: Apple Music Classical Now Available on the Web

 

[turbineseaplane]

This company really knows how to focus on the important stuff

 

[VisceralRealist]

Anything other than making a Mac app, eh?

 

[JCCL]

This company really knows how to focus on the important stuff

This app is a god send for classical music lovers. My dad uses it every single day and I’m sure others like him do the same.

 

[orbital~debris]

A precursor prelude to a version for macOS, hopefully! 🤞🏻🎼🖥️

EDIT: improved word choice.

 

[MGrayson3]

I'm an appalling classical music snob and disdain most recordings made after the 1950's. (Music used to be about conveying imagination and emotion and not merely accuracy and speed. Pianists learned all the wrong lessons from Rachmaninov and Horowitz.)

Most collections focus on big names and recent recordings, but it's worth a look. YouTube is the best source for the old stuff.

 

[turbineseaplane]

A web version before an actual Mac App ... for a PAID service

Software at Apple is so broken

 

[Bustycat]

The Apple Music app keeps ruining your library containing classical music. Maybe lacking the macOS app is a good idea!

 

[GtrDude]

Excellent.
I use Classical all the time on the phone.
Would be great if they just combined it onto one app and keep it simple.

 

[infinitejest]

Only took them 2 years.

 

[GtrDude]

The Apple Music app keeps ruining your library containing classical music. Maybe lacking the macOS app is a good idea!

I've had this happen and it's very annoying.
They change the names and album covers on anything you have ripped from your old CD's.

Called Apple a few years ago - twice - about this and they said they're aware of it and strongly indicated that ultimately they don't care and don't intend to do any of us silly folks any favors by making sure Apple Music doesn't go through all our library.

Sure enough since then they haven't done anything to change it.

Their goal is a full take-over of all our music listening.
No ripped CD's, no nothing other than Apple Music on your computer.

My solution is to keep all my CD's on an external drive and only then do they leave it alone.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Their goal is a full take-over of all our music listening.
No ripped CD's, no nothing other than Apple Music on your computer.

Yep
Makes their Music service a permanent non starter for me

 

[cocky jeremy]

If I wanted to listen to this junk I'd go hop on an elevator.

 

[Böhme417]

How about a flipping Apple TV app?

 

[Böhme417]

If I wanted to listen to this junk I'd go hop on an elevator.

When was the last time you were on an elevator?

 

[IAmStumped]

If I wanted to listen to this junk I'd go hop on an elevator.

Apparently you know nothing about Classical music... or elevators.

 

[slomtbr]

Yep
Makes their Music service a permanent non starter for me

… and no option to turn off this POS

 

[Veinticinco]

This company really knows how to focus on the important stuff

First, an AVP exclusive of Metallica and now this? Are you not entertained?

What more do you expect from a CEO that could pass for Carl from Pixar’s Up?

 

[Astuces iOS]

YES THAT’S COOL

 

[Veinticinco]

This app is a god send for classical music lovers. My dad uses it every single day and I’m sure others like him do the same.

It’s not an app though. They’ve simply enabled it via a web browser after many years of software development.

Let’s just pray that Julius Eastman's Symphony No. 2 and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2 from conductor Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra, isn’t automatically installed on user’s iPods.

 

[Astuces iOS]

There is no Mac app... but I can make this website like an app with a safari feature !

 

[Veinticinco]

If I wanted to listen to this junk I'd go hop on an elevator.

If it was made by Apple in 2024/25, you’d really want to check it’s not into an empty shaft before stepping forward.

 

[kyjaotkb]

They took Primephonic, a great service, and turned it into... this...

 

[segfaultdotorg]

They should have called it "iMusic Classic."

 

[LeLeon]

Nice surprise! Seems well made and well designed. I know it sucks that there is no mac App, but we gotta appreciate what we get. It is better than nothing. I hope the mobile app gets updated too because it sometimes loads quite slow and has some minor glitches. Also the Media Control on the bottoms looks different that on Podcasts and Music.