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Apple Music Classical Now Available on the Web
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Oh fer gawds sake Apple…
You can keep your exclusive Franz Worse-Than-Most.
One of those conductors you have to wonder how they made it to where they are.
Where are the iPad and macOS apps?
A website is just so… lazy.
You can keep your exclusive Franz Worse-Than-Most.
One of those conductors you have to wonder how they made it to where they are.
Where are the iPad and macOS apps?
A website is just so… lazy.
In this era of vaporware out of Cupertino, there is that.
A phrase that likely closes most internal team updates on software development.
Apple Music Classical needs a radio streaming feature for the service. Get some interesting people playing interesting classical music on it. The podcasts are mostly boring. Listening to classical artists talk about the work is mostly boring.
The iphone app is still a weird skinned web-view of apple music; and it doesn't play nice with the regular apple music app - one doesn't know you're using the other and so on.
It's all a bit clunky, they either need full separation or to combine them properly. Right now it's a halfway house.
That said, the content is great.
What both apple music and apple classical need are a way to curate your own collection, add notes, make it feel like you have organised and own your favourite music.
It's all a bit clunky, they either need full separation or to combine them properly. Right now it's a halfway house.
That said, the content is great.
What both apple music and apple classical need are a way to curate your own collection, add notes, make it feel like you have organised and own your favourite music.
I find it odd that there is no AppleTV app version. A lot of people listen to music through their home theater setups.
Sounds like your elevator isn't going to the top floor.
Making a simple web app is one of the few things their designers and coders still know how to do.
Apple Music classical is the reason I started an Apple Music trial.
All the rest doesn't interest me at all.
I usually listen to it at work, though. At home it's usually quite enough that I can concentrate without headphones...
Absolutely unacceptable. Horror stories like this have kept me off of Apple's "cloud" music services, and will continue to do so. My files are my files; no touch, Apple.
This is a cool option for Mac (I've been using iPhone Mirroring, which is kinda awkward), but has anyone else noticed random jumping to a new track when performing other interactions with Safari in the background. Super weird. It just jumps to the next track on me.
Classical recording went on life support with the 1974 oil embargo, a watershed for our civilization. Major labels began pressing LPs with recycled vinyl good for 10–12 replays. Good recordings were still made but few were issued back then. My first music collection was electrically recorded for 78 RPM records. Felix Weingartner’s Beethoven and Brahms symphonies are a listen if you can tolerate old sound. Acoustically recorded 78s were just awful but you need to bite the bullet for some of them: Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, Bessie Smith, Enrico Caruso. There is an Edison cylinder recording of Brahms playing Brahms. That is where I draw the line.
DGG is righting major wrongs with their 70’s output in the new “Original Source Series”
New LP reissues directly mixed and cut simultaneously from old 4 and 8 track session tapes, produced for much more modern sensibilities.
I feel classical recording got a nice boost in the late 70’s/early 80’s due to the introduction of digital recording - many great early digital recording sessions from Decca, EMI, Telarc, etc. not without some of the telltale signs of early digital, but still mostly well recorded and still conducted by some of the greats.
Of course there’s still something to be said for the oldies. Caruso’s voice will only ever be heard as what was captured by the acoustic recording process. But I doubt there’s a single recording of his on Apple Classical that sounds anywhere near as vivid and powerful as the sound you’d get directly from a 100+ year old batwing label Victor.
Nice but also would like to see that control on the Mac version of the app.
I love expermental/avante garde so this really helps. I do find myself choosing Jazz though if ever having to phone Apple on an issue as it is usually a little more eclectic than the pieces they play on the Classical selection.
I love expermental/avante garde so this really helps. I do find myself choosing Jazz though if ever having to phone Apple on an issue as it is usually a little more eclectic than the pieces they play on the Classical selection.
What’s going on at Apple? 1st, why would 'Classical' just not be a tab or option in the existing 'Music' App. They do this for MLS on tvOS, they don’t make their TV user base launch a whole separate app for it. 2nd, and completely not related to classical, why have they still not fixed Apple Music automatically playing when you plug it into your car?!
I had to make a hard decision to delete the Music app from my iPhone to solve this issue - at the expense of not getting a response when I now ask Siri for the latest news while driving.
I had to make a hard decision to delete the Music app from my iPhone to solve this issue - at the expense of not getting a response when I now ask Siri for the latest news while driving.
Many more people on this planet care about Apple Music than Swift Assist.
Strongly agreed.
Are you familiar with the YouTube channel, "Marchant 3M Tape Archiving Project"? It's an absolute goldmine of rare recordings.