Apple Music Classical Updated With CarPlay and Siri Support

[MacRumors]

Apple Music Classical was updated today with CarPlay and Siri support, as well as stability and performance improvements, according to Apple.

CarPlay support was briefly added to a previous version of Apple Music Classical earlier this year, but it was removed just hours later. Starting with version 2.1 today, the app is once again available on CarPlay, as shown in our screenshot below.

CarPlay support provides Apple Music Classical listeners with access to their playlists, library, recommendations, and more on their vehicle's infotainment display. And with Siri on iOS 18.1 and later, users can also search via CarPlay for composers, artists, works, and instruments in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Dutch, according to Apple. Additional languages will follow over time.

Apple Music Classical first launched in March 2023, offering users with a standard Apple Music subscription access to over five million classical music tracks at no additional cost. The streaming app features advanced search functionality, exclusive artwork, extensive metadata, curated listening recommendations, and more.

The app is available for the iPhone and iPad, as well as Android. It is based on Primephonic, a classical music streaming service acquired by Apple in 2021.

Article Link: Apple Music Classical Updated With CarPlay and Siri Support

 

[repler]

Awesome! Now do it for Jazz too!

 

[headlessmike]

When I say the image I immediately thought that they'd finally released a Mac app, but alas, the wait continues.

 

[Yimbaz]

A year and a half after launch. What's going on with this app? Some senior VP's pet project?

 

[iSmoggie]

Feels a lot more stable and snappier when navigating around the app.

 

[russell_314]

Now can we separate Apple Music Classical from regular Apple Music? I don’t want classical music randomly playing when I’m listening to the regular Apple Music. This is why I don’t use the classical app anymore

 

[theolderoldcoot]

Sure hope the fixed Carplay on the iPhone since this another area that they dropped the ballon when they introduced iOS 18 and now this SNAFU with accepting theor T & C on iPhones, iPads where you can't accept them regardless of what you do and then the other SNAFU when you get it in a foreign Language that you can't read. You would have thought that their beta testing this would have picked all these up before a major release. Oh and there is the Notes disappearing on iPhones and iPads and no explanation from Apple on how to get them back and on Sequoia where peoples Contacts also disappeared. I never saw a fix for that. Nothing, no Release Notes for any of these bugs and no work-a-rounds. The term here is PATHETIC

 

[TheBeverage]

Please put it on the Mac and Apple TV.

 

[Arytonsenna]

The fact that Apple, one of the biggest companies in the world, can't just take a fork of their OWN MUSIC App, and release a clone of it with the same set of features is embarrassing. It shouldn't take years for this app to have feature parity

 

[phenste]

A year and a half after launch. What's going on with this app? Some senior VP's pet project?

honestly quite a well-educated guess. this whole thing has stagnated to an almost-impressive degree

 

[Kay_Ess]

Ohhh I hope this means it comes to Teslas too. I mostly listen to music in the car so not having the app there was a bit of a bummer.

 

[tomsaccount]

When I say the image I immediately thought that they'd finally released a Mac app, but alas, the wait continues.

for real

 

[**maestro**]

As a professional classical musician, this app will only become useful to me when it's released on macOS. If that happens, then it will become VERY useful.

 

[spazzcat]

The fact that Apple, one of the biggest companies in the world, can't just take a fork of their OWN MUSIC App, and release a clone of it with the same set of features is embarrassing. It shouldn't take years for this app to have feature parity

They bought an app and rebranded it. The app they bought did not have CarPlay.

 

[alfonsog]

I’ve been waiting for this and now just waiting for it on Mac, except I mostly quit using Mac except for music notation for arranging and composing. And the iPad is almost enough for that.

 

[diego.caraballo]

Any connoisseur of the cheat-codes to play Classical playlists on Homepod?
After today update, I say "Play The Works on Apple Music Classical" and it responded back that the app doesn't work with Siri.

Then, I say "Play Apple Musical Classical The Works" and it it's playing right now.

But I imagine that there's a shorter command...I hope

 

[hot_ham_water]

They bought an app and rebranded it. The app they bought did not have CarPlay.

not quite. they bought primephonic for their classical metadata, and split off all the classical stuff to its own app and applied the metadata to it. this was a herculean task, and the resulting search and organization in the classical app is magical.

 

[hot_ham_water]

still no download option

 

[CarAnalogy]

A year and a half after launch. What's going on with this app? Some senior VP's pet project?

Please put it on the Mac and Apple TV.

The fact that Apple, one of the biggest companies in the world, can't just take a fork of their OWN MUSIC App, and release a clone of it with the same set of features is embarrassing. It shouldn't take years for this app to have feature parity

They bought an app and rebranded it. The app they bought did not have CarPlay.

This all speaks volumes to Apple's failure with Catalyst, Swift UI, their whole cross platform development plan in general (cross-platform in the Apple sense of among their own platforms, even).

On developer blogs and podcasts I hear nothing but complaints about Swift UI especially. Nobody likes Catalyst and Apple themselves seem to have forgotten about it.

And the irony is, they did this after watching Microsoft go through the exact same thing and make the exact same mistakes.

Throwing out working code just for the sake of something new has proven over decades to be a bad idea. And we still have recent examples coming up all the time. Why do companies keep doing this? I know the answer, it's the same answer as when anything doesn't make sense. Money, corporate politics.

 

[Burnt Toast]

As a professional classical musician, this app will only become useful to me when it's released on macOS. If that happens, then it will become VERY useful.

But aren't all of the same classical titles available within the standard Apple Music on MacOS?

 

[**maestro**]

But aren't all of the same classical titles available within the standard Apple Music on MacOS?

Possibly, but for me, the key difference between the two apps lies in their interfaces and search capabilities. When I search for a specific classical work on Apple Music, I often can’t find what I’m looking for. In contrast, Apple Classical makes it easy to locate. However, when I’m working, I don’t have access to my phone (only my Mac). As a professional classical musician—surely one of the target audiences for the Apple Classical app—I find myself unable to use it when I need it most, and I wish I could!

 

[Realityck]

CarPlay support was briefly added to a previous version of Apple Music Classical earlier this year, but it was removed just hours later. Starting with version 2.1 today, the app is once again available on CarPlay,

Finally!
Was wondering why it was taking so long for classical to show up on CarPlay. Earlier with one update it did temporarily enable iPhone running Classical to hear the audio and see the track under music, but no icon to separate it, or to access it on you CarPlay compatible radio directly.

 

[Realityck]

But aren't all of the same classical titles available within the standard Apple Music on MacOS?

Apple Music has a long list of music genres to wander through to just find specific classical content. All the genres of classical music are lacking in Music for finding the right content. Examples would be various time periods. Classical releases might have multiple works by different performers that a normal search in music can’t readily resolve easily to find what you are looking for.

 

[HenryAH]

My iPhone App for Classical says that CarPlay version 2.1 was added 3 hours ago, but I yet to see it as an app on my CarPlay in my car.

 

[settsu]

Now can we separate Apple Music Classical from regular Apple Music? I don’t want classical music randomly playing when I’m listening to the regular Apple Music. This is why I don’t use the classical app anymore

Yes, please!

I have a strong affinity for classical music but it takes a... "highly compartmentalized" form in my real world listening, almost entirely separate from my general music listening habits and preferences. Once I realized, by default, the Classical app does things like pollute the Apple Music listening history and robot-generated New Music and Heavy Rotation Mixes, I effectively stopped using it.