Apple Music Classical Updated With Three New Features

[MacRumors]

Apple Music Classical was updated today with time-synced listening guides, curated stations, and personalized recommendations on the Home tab of the app.

"Dive deeper with time-synced listening guides for 150+ popular works, enjoy nonstop music with curated stations, and get daily personalized recommendations on Home," says the release notes for Apple Music Classical version 2.2, released today.

Listening guides provide details about classical music in real time, with descriptions appearing on the screen as you listen. At launch, the feature is available for more than 100 works, in English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese.

"From identifying the instruments they're hearing to explaining the drama behind a symphony or a concerto, the expert commentary turns the listening experience into a learning experience by opening doors on some of the most enduring and admired works of classical music," an Apple spokesperson said, in an email.

As for the curated stations, they are arranged by instrument, composer, period, and genre. They are curated by Apple Music Classical's editors.

Last, personalized recommendations improve classical music discovery based on your Apple Music Classical listening history.

"The features in this update are the most significant additions to Apple Music Classical since launch," said Apple Music Classical director Anjali Malhotra.

Apple Music Classical is available in the App Store for the iPhone and iPad, and it also recently became available on the web. Apple Music Classical is also available on CarPlay and Android, but there is still no Mac app for the service.

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.

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[abatabia]

Desperately needs to be on Apple TV. What’s the holdup?

 

[wanha]

Music is the closest thing we have to magic and we could be doing so much more with these apps.

Then again, there's fat chance big corporations are going to be the ones to have any idea how to unlock that magic

 

[xmach]

Desperately needs to be on Apple TV. What’s the holdup?

yes -- also, where's the Mac version??

 

[0049190]

Apple should make a separate app for Music Videos and make it available on AppleTV. They could add music video channels as well. Currently music videos are buried in the Music app.

 

[Astuces iOS]

yes -- also, where's the Mac version??

https://classical.music.apple.com/ and make it an app !!

 

[guycarmeli]

As a classical music lover, I was super excited when they announced this app. But in reality, I don't use it at all. When I listen to classical music, I don't listen on my AirPods or stream it from my phone. I listen properly in my living room hi-fi connected to the Apple TV; and as long as there is no native app, it is practically useless.
I'm quite surprised they are not aware that this is the case with many potential users for this app.

 

[abatabia]

As a classical music lover, I was super excited when they announced this app. But in reality, I don't use it at all. When I listen to classical music, I don't listen on my AirPods or stream it from my phone. I listen properly in my living room hi-fi connected to the Apple TV; and as long as there is no native app, it is practically useless.
I'm quite surprised they are not aware that this is the case with many potential users for this app.

Exactly this. It’s why I still pay for stage plus. I only watch classical the same way. On my tv.

 

[jgreg728]

Agree with the comments here that Apple needs to expand Classical to other platforms. While they're at it if they expand to tvOS, they should collab with the Carnegie Hall+ tv channel in the Apple TV App and come up with some deal to access that channel for free or at a discount if you already sub to Apple Music. Could always use more Apple TV perks.

 

[MNGR]

As a classical music lover, I was super excited when they announced this app. But in reality, I don't use it at all. When I listen to classical music, I don't listen on my AirPods or stream it from my phone. I listen properly in my living room hi-fi connected to the Apple TV; and as long as there is no native app, it is practically useless.
I'm quite surprised they are not aware that this is the case with many potential users for this app.

Well some of us listen in our cars. Enjoy it a lot.

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

Music is the closest thing we have to magic and we could be doing so much more with these apps.

Then again, there's fat chance big corporations are going to be the ones to have any idea how to unlock that magic

Pound for pound Apple Music is the most disappointing thing to come out of Apple in the Tim Cook era.

Had so much potential..

 

[iGüey]

Rock me Amadeus! That’s a real classic!

 

[wanha]

Pound for pound Apple Music is the most disappointing thing to come out of Apple in the Tim Cook era.

Had so much potential..

I think it stings even worse because of all of Apple's proclamations about how they cared about and understood music when they launched the service and brought in some big names Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre, and Zane Lowe.

As it stands, it's a good-enough, basic music streaming service with nothing particularly novel, fun, or engaging about it - and a complete dearth of any type of meaningful innovation.

Not exactly the ode to music Apple made it out to be.

 

[wanha]

Apple should make a separate app for Music Videos and make it available on AppleTV. They could add music video channels as well. Currently music videos are buried in the Music app.

it feels as if Apple has little interest in any type of actual innovation around music. They're happy to just coast.

 

[TruthAboveAllElse]

Can I please get the ability the exclude classical music from the regular Music app?

Would be even better if it was granular and let me choose separately for crossover and actual classical music. But that I’m sure is not Apple’s style.

 

[sigmasirrus]

Pound for pound Apple Music is the most disappointing thing to come out of Apple in the Tim Cook era.

Had so much potential..

Don’t worry he’s got plenty of disappointment in the pipeline and he’s sure we’re gonna love it!

I’m actually quite happy with the classical app. But I would not have paid for something additional. So it’s a nice to have.

For the real enthusiasts it’s probably not enough?

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

Don’t worry he’s got plenty of disappointment in the pipeline and he’s sure we’re gonna love it!

I’m actually quite happy with the classical app. But I would not have paid for something additional. So it’s a nice to have.

For the real enthusiasts it’s probably not enough?

I’m not a classical guy so i can’t comment on that.

I think having a separate app is probably a wise move i think they should have kept iTunes separate from the Music streaming service also tbh.

The current app seems to be trying to do both and does neither particularly well

 

[DrJR]

now do an app for jazz!

 

[HappyMBAowner]

I produce classical music albums. Apple does not accept classical albums anymore from any distributor (I tried them all). I read somewhere that Apple pretends not making money with music distribution (lol). Don't misread me: I love the Apple Classical App - though, like others, I'd love to see a Mac version of the App. But I seem to get mixed messages from Apple. Refusing all classical music albums from distributors gave me the impression that Apple wanted to dismiss the whole idea. Then, I read this article mentioning about new features. I'm confused.

 

[SwampYankee0!]

Scrolling on long playlists is still slow. After you scroll maybe 50 items you have to wait for it to catch up. Same playlist on plain old Apple Music has zero lag in scrolling. Even with a playlist of hundreds of items. For the life of me I can not understand why this has to suck like this. Similar apps, different playlist engines. I'm sure Apple thinks I'm using playlists wrong

 

[onenorth]

Just to note the screen captures above are outdated and not helpful. The lower left icon is now "Home". There are new sections called "listening guides" on the home screen.

 

[antiprotest]

As a loyal Apple customer, I am not used to this much innovation. I'm going to lay down for a bit. Have a nice day, everyone.

 

[nutmac]

yes -- also, where's the Mac version??

OK since we are doing this, where's the Watch version? And Vision?

 

[nutmac]

Rock me Amadeus! That’s a real classic!

Amadeus is what turned me into a classic music lover today. As Falco would say, rock me to the top.

 

[chucker23n1]

time-synced listening guides

Neat.

150 works isn't a lot, but it's a start.