I'm very interested in what they could do with this. Listening to classical music can be an altogether different experience, and I'd like to see how custom software would enhance this. iTunes LP was an interesting idea, but it didn't really go far enough. It did show that software can be an active part of the experience, not just something that gets out of the way.
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If the classical music app is coming, they sure had better fix the gapless playback bug in iOS 15.
I'm not the OP to the comment you quoted, but I can tell you that I find Music.app to be a complete dumpster fire. I can easily make it crash at will by simply following a two step search process.
MacRumors doesn’t like any hurt fee fee’s. Hence the limit on “dislikes”, etc. Millennials, sheesh.
Which has kept me from participating as much recently. They have started to get very interesting on what they choose to limit speech on
I still use a local library, and searching/navigation is especially weird. Not buggy, but just weird and Apple-unlike.
It's incredible how they bring more bloatware as if there was nothing left to fix ?, Safari all over.
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I'll go even further in macOS, fullscreen has been flaky since day 1.
Menu and dock trigger out of nowhere, many times you enter the app's name in spotlight to switch to it and it takes you to desktop, but with the app's name in the menu bar, so you have to right click the app's icon in the dock -> show all windows to find it. Mind bending.
Even Windows got this right decades ago.
Is it the home bar that's in the way of your games, or the swipe up gesture? For me, it's the gesture when interacting with the bottom of the screen. Even if they did remove the home bar and left the gesture (how else would we close apps?), does it really solve the problem?
Yes the iOS/iPadOS built-in Music app is a bug-ridden atrocity, but that doesn't mean a standalone Classical Music app is a bad idea. If there are to be separate apps, Apple should improve and nurture both of them as much as possible.
Example: ever notice how "Artist" in the iOS Music app doesn't mean the same thing as it has traditionally meant in the Mac iTunes/Music app? Instead, "Artist" behaves just like "Album Artist" in good ol' Mac iTunes (a more limited concept). Selecting the list of songs by [artist] doesn't bring up anything by that artist that appears on a compilation album, for example. Or collaborations. Idiotic. Oh and the app removed the great Genius playback feature a while ago. I have a better playback experience using one of my click-wheel iPods, compared to my iPhone.
BTW, the linked 9to5mac article says iTunes Pass will be rebranded to "Apple Account," not "Apple Balance" as this article says.
Example: ever notice how "Artist" in the iOS Music app doesn't mean the same thing as it has traditionally meant in the Mac iTunes/Music app? Instead, "Artist" behaves just like "Album Artist" in good ol' Mac iTunes (a more limited concept). Selecting the list of songs by [artist] doesn't bring up anything by that artist that appears on a compilation album, for example. Or collaborations. Idiotic. Oh and the app removed the great Genius playback feature a while ago. I have a better playback experience using one of my click-wheel iPods, compared to my iPhone.
BTW, the linked 9to5mac article says iTunes Pass will be rebranded to "Apple Account," not "Apple Balance" as this article says.
For me, the entire home screen layout needs to go back to what it looked like in iPad OS 14. I hate the iPad OS layout in 15 and am still on 14 because of it.
Nope, that will be a preloaded app you can’t remove but will be free and get lots of hate
The iOS Music app and iTunes on windows are beyond neglected. It should be criminal how nonfunctional they have been for years meanwhile they push everyone to use paid Apple Music subscriptions. FLAC support anyone??? It ain’t 2003 anymore!!
This, holy cow. I had a jailbreak tweak for this over a decade ago. Every other video playing app has long had this figured out. The iOS native video player is truly stuck in 2006.
Imagine claiming to cater to classical music listeners while not having proper FLAC support on your device
I expect making Apple Classical a separate apps will be good for both apps. It gives each of them more UI room to breathe in their own respective ways.
iTunes was increasingly bad in part because the only thing missing was the kitchen sync. At one point, it did music playback, disc burning, disc ripping, the store, video playback, podcast playback, it was a Shoutcast client, it synced your note with your iPod(???), it synced contacts with your iPhone, it installed firmware updates, it backed up your iPhone, and I've probably forgotten a million things. All in one big fat main window. So many of the poor UI decisions were driven by this attempt to do everything and then some.
I don't think the Music app on Mac is great (it… really isn't), but at least it's much simpler and cleaner, and they have something to build on again now. I hope they'll start one day?
I haven't found many "bugs" per se, but I think the app is clunky and not very user-friendly. For one thing, the Store is an embedded internet browser and I often find it slow and awkward to navigate. If you search within the Store, you are now in "Store mode" and to get back to searching your personal library, especially after you've browsed a number of pages within the Store, you have to press "back" over and over to be able to search your own library. I sometimes encounter the Store freezing while navigating it. Sometimes tracks are shown as not having been downloaded, even though I have downloaded them. I often find two copies of a single song in my library for an unexplained reason. I would like for playlist folders to automatically be expanded when I start the app as well, as was the case in previous iTunes versions.
I'm not sure a separate classical app is needed. A "classical mode" in the Music app (for both streaming and the store) might be helpful, however, I understand this is a result of them acquiring a separate app, which might explain why this is not going to be incorporated into the Music app. (I listen primarily to classical and find classical music on streaming apps to be hit and miss and very inconsistent in terms of how the metadata is used to label and organize albums and tracks).
Just roll store balances into Apple Cash. It’s the next step, and an obvious one, considering their plans to expand financial services.
I think the issue is the organization of classical music. It is vastly different than contemporary music organization. I can see how the two will conflict in one unified Music app.
Podcasts were broken out and everyone cheered.
Movies/TV were broken out and everyone cheered.
Classical music is the largest genre of music far and away, and generally few people mix listening to classical/instrumental with other genres.
Classical/instrumental is a behemoth unto itself, and for the people that enjoy it, splitting it out makes perfect sense.
If you're in a region where you've got an Apple Account Balance (eg Apple Store Gift Cards and iTunes/App Store gift cards have been merged) - eg Australia, United States - it hasn't been a thing for a while
Eg in Australia it was retired at least in August 2021 https://tapdownunder.com.au/2021/08/farewell-itunes-pass/ (after we got the Apple Account Balance in July 2021)