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Why on Earth would they create a dedicated app for Classical?
Yeah, I've read the reasons why and as an active musician and fan of almost every form of musical expression, including Classical, still find it odd they would make a dedicated app as opposed to a dedicated section within Music. The last thing Apple needs is more fragmentation.

While I'm here... The one aspect I'd like to see Apple address most, when it comes to Music, is to freaking include liner notes. FFS, it you can include lyrics, pulling liner note data is practically the same thing.

Liner notes can go a long way toward facilitating a more rewarding musical discovery, offering a deeper, more connective aspect that is missing from today's sea of curated singles. Capturing artist, song title and album title is pretty bare minimum. I'd like to see info for producer, studio, engineers, writers, musicians, instruments played, etc. added to each track. I'd love to know that the drummer on this one particular track is also the drummer on this other track for a totally different band. Maybe I should look into their work more. Or... and I know I'm opening up a can of worms... Imagine if you could ask "Hey Siri, who are the musicians playing on this tack?" Or "In what studio was this song recorded?" I know, I know... Siri. Already rolling my eyes at the obvious jokes. I said "imagine if..."

All I'm really getting at is I bet there is an audience out there that would really appreciate that level of detail. And for those that never wondered about the studio in which their favorite songs were recorded, if given the opportunity, might like connecting some of those dots. And implementing something like this seems not some wildly insurmountable technical hurdle.
 
Why aren’t there ‘When Will the iPadOS 16.4 Beta Be Released?’, ‘When Will the tvOS 16.4 Beta Be Released?’, ‘When Will the macOS 13.3 Beta Be Released?’, and ‘When Will the watchOS 9.4 Beta Be Released?’ as well?
Appeasing iPhone fans it seems with only iOS articles/rumors. We Ipad, Mac, Watch, and Apple TV 4K owners are all second class. 😥

Makes you wonder how many iOS articles MacRumors authors each year? :eek:
 
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Why aren’t there ‘When Will the iPadOS 16.4 Beta Be Released?’, ‘When Will the tvOS 16.4 Beta Be Released?’, ‘When Will the macOS 13.3 Beta Be Released?’, and ‘When Will the watchOS 9.4 Beta Be Released?’ as well?
Because iOS 16.4 is packed with jam-packed enriched features that Apple promised us last year at WWDC 2022.
 
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One of my biggest pet peeves when watching various apple youtubers is they take out their phone and show the calendar and say when they expect a Beta update. Heaven forbid you actually enjoy a public update for longer than a few hours. Apple should not be releasing beta updates every week. That whole process needs an overhaul, which includes a specific quality control team to actually look at the feedback and take it back to the engineers. Then maybe they can have 2 beta releases, a release candidate, and then public release. When the Public releases still feel like betas, this is a terrible process.
 
With every new version bugs are getting piled up. So, I hope Apple releases a version only to get rid of old bugs than adding new along with new functions.
 
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I think that article highlights why search is so bad as presently implemented.
but most streaming services just aren’t built for the way classical enthusiasts regularly search for and listen to music.
Even searching for modern pop content I can specify a foreign artist but Apple Music fails to match to whats embedded as tracks inside an original TV show featuring singles from same foreign artist.
 
Why on Earth would they create a dedicated app for Classical?
Yeah, I've read the reasons why and as an active musician and fan of almost every form of musical expression, including Classical, still find it odd they would make a dedicated app as opposed to a dedicated section within Music. The last thing Apple needs is more fragmentation.

While I'm here... The one aspect I'd like to see Apple address most, when it comes to Music, is to freaking include liner notes. FFS, it you can include lyrics, pulling liner note data is practically the same thing.

Liner notes can go a long way toward facilitating a more rewarding musical discovery, offering a deeper, more connective aspect that is missing from today's sea of curated singles. Capturing artist, song title and album title is pretty bare minimum. I'd like to see info for producer, studio, engineers, writers, musicians, instruments played, etc. added to each track. I'd love to know that the drummer on this one particular track is also the drummer on this other track for a totally different band. Maybe I should look into their work more. Or... and I know I'm opening up a can of worms... Imagine if you could ask "Hey Siri, who are the musicians playing on this tack?" Or "In what studio was this song recorded?" I know, I know... Siri. Already rolling my eyes at the obvious jokes. I said "imagine if..."

All I'm really getting at is I bet there is an audience out there that would really appreciate that level of detail. And for those that never wondered about the studio in which their favorite songs were recorded, if given the opportunity, might like connecting some of those dots. And implementing something like this seems not some wildly insurmountable technical hurdle.
Maybe they’ll make a dedicated app for Rap so it stops flooding my Music app and I can delete it / block it in screen time.
 
What about a working HomeKit architecture update? Will this be included in iOS 16.4?
 
What about a working HomeKit architecture update? Will this be included in iOS 16.4?
That is one of the reason that a lot of people want to find out what the next multiple OS beta cycle relates to. There is even the association of new hardware products for March/April such as the long delayed Mac Pro, an updated iMac.

This MacRumors always associating it with just iOS in their title omitting everything else is dumb IMHO.
 
How do you decide when a beta is good and ready?
By Punxsutawney Phil opinion today. Since this next beta cycle is released in the spring got to know when that is.

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