Apple launches its new classical music streaming app for pre-order
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Re: Apple launches its new classical music streaming app for pre-order
#2> These can be streamed in high-quality audio of up to 192 kHz/24-bit Hi-Res Lossless
up to. And down to ? 0 bps ?
Re: Apple launches its new classical music streaming app for pre-order
#3This is fantastic, classical music absolutely needs a dedicated interface since the organization by composer and multi-movement works is so different from popular music.
But I wonder if it will help with finding which version of a work to listen to. A given symphony or piano prelude might have 100 or more recordings. If you go to classical music forum postings, you can usually find a thread asking "what's your favorite performance of..." and quickly find that there are 1 or 2 or 3 versions widely considered the best.
I really want a crowdsourced version of this -- both the most-listened and highest-rated recordings of a given work by a given composer. Because it's a lot of research to do otherwise.
And some people might think it can't matter that much, how different could they really be? But it's astonishing. The same work in the hands of one conductor+orchestra plods along dead and disjointed and you never want to hear it again, while another one soars full of life, the work makes sense and it becomes your favorite.
Re: Apple launches its new classical music streaming app for pre-order
#4Great, because we need more specialized apps. I love classical music but I would rather use Spotify for that purpose because at this point I have realized the only thing important for Apple is money. I prefer not to further contribute to a trillion dollar company that has so much restrictions in their ecosystem.
Re: Apple launches its new classical music streaming app for pre-order
#5This is fantastic, classical music absolutely needs a dedicated interface since the organization by composer and multi-movement works is so different from popular music. But I wonder if it will help with finding which version of a work to listen to. A given symphony or piano prelude might have 100 or more recordings. If you go to classical music forum postings, you can usually find a thread asking "what's your favori…
I've noticed there's a problem on streaming services where low quality artists basically spam the service with extremely low quality recordings of classical pieces. They often sound like they just got a midi file of the score and played it back through a piece of software. The scores for most classical music are public domain so there is nothing "wrong" about this but no one really wants to listen to low quality MIDI playback versus a human performance.
When you search for a given piece of classical music you have to wade through all this low quality stuff.
It would be great if Apple Music finds a way to combat that. I recently switched from Amazon to Apple, Apple generally seems to have better control of the catalog so maybe it's less of a problem there.
Re: Apple launches its new classical music streaming app for pre-order
#6This is fantastic, classical music absolutely needs a dedicated interface since the organization by composer and multi-movement works is so different from popular music. But I wonder if it will help with finding which version of a work to listen to. A given symphony or piano prelude might have 100 or more recordings. If you go to classical music forum postings, you can usually find a thread asking "what's your favori…
This is 100% accurate. Classical music is just different from other music in too many ways to make them work well in the same UI. I have yet to see a UI that does it well, so I'm looking forward to seeing Apple's stab at it.
Generally you can't go wrong with Deutsche Grammophon, or Hyperion, or even Telarc, but there sure are some stinkers out there, labels just trying to have a large catalog of any quality. And sometimes even a popular recording just doesn't work for me as well as a lesser-known recording, because personal taste can be strange.
Re: Apple launches its new classical music streaming app for pre-order
#7Great, because we need more specialized apps. I love classical music but I would rather use Spotify for that purpose because at this point I have realized the only thing important for Apple is money. I prefer not to further contribute to a trillion dollar company that has so much restrictions in their ecosystem.
Sure, spotify doesn't care that much about money. Must be why they are on the stingy side of compensating artists compared to Apple and just about every other streaming service.
Re: Apple launches its new classical music streaming app for pre-order
#8Great, because we need more specialized apps. I love classical music but I would rather use Spotify for that purpose because at this point I have realized the only thing important for Apple is money. I prefer not to further contribute to a trillion dollar company that has so much restrictions in their ecosystem.
Not everything has to be for or about YOU.
Maybe this will be useful for others and you can continue to do without this.
Re: Apple launches its new classical music streaming app for pre-order
#9> These can be streamed in high-quality audio of up to 192 kHz/24-bit Hi-Res Lossless up to. And down to ? 0 bps ?
Might be hard for them to stream if you don't have a network connection.
Re: Apple launches its new classical music streaming app for pre-order
#10This is fantastic, classical music absolutely needs a dedicated interface since the organization by composer and multi-movement works is so different from popular music. But I wonder if it will help with finding which version of a work to listen to. A given symphony or piano prelude might have 100 or more recordings. If you go to classical music forum postings, you can usually find a thread asking "what's your favori…
Do you have an accessible example for two different recordings of a composition that each shine in their own light?