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Re: Apple Music Classical

#21
post #10

Maybe we'll finally get a music app where classical music isn't categorized by Album/Artist :) Classical doesn't really fit that well into a schema, since you have composers, performers, and then under performers there's soloist, or multiple soloists, which orchestra, which conductor, and so on. And it would also be nice to have things like "show most popular recordings of Beethoven's 5th".

It fits perfectly well into a schema, it's just been ignored for some reason since the dawn of ID3.

It's crazy Apple considered it better to write a completely new app rather than improve their existing product.

Re: Apple Music Classical

#23
post #2

Waiting for the destined to be equally popular "Apple Music Polka"

Did you read the announcement: > Why a separate classical app? > Classical music often involves multiple musicians recording works that have been recorded many times before and are referred to by different names. For example, from the formal Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14 to the popular byname of Moonlight Sonata, or in multiple languages, such as Mondschein Sonata in German. Such complexities mean that classical mu…

Off topic but the careful choice of rationale here kinda reminds me of the choices the Rust language designers made; addressing actual issues that have caused inconvenience. I love it. Something about an honest desire and attempt to fix a demonstrated issue; not sure if I'm articulating it properly.

This would be the opposite of what is often referred to as "user hostility", but which I think is more aptly described as "user indifference": stuff like a programming language silently allowing you to crash while accessing null pointers, or every single music app UI showing stuff like

1. Tchaikovsky Symphonies and Concertos - London Symphony Orchestra - I. S ...

2. Tchaikovsky Symphonies and Concertos - London Symphony Orchestra - II. S ...

3. Tchaikovsky Symphonies and Concertos - London Symphony Orchestra - III. S ...

4. Tchaikovsky Symphonies and Concertos - London Symphony Orchestra - I. C ...

Re: Apple Music Classical

#24
Strange feelings looking at this... This is almost exactly the product I failed to get into YC with back in 2017... All the same ideas as far as the UX goes with one main difference: the business model. I wanted to apply the Steam business model where people would actually buy album again (and not tracks a la iTunes).

The issue is that while it's nice to have a UX tailored for classical, this won't likely help the classical industry to thrive again.

To simplify a bit, the classical music industry is composed of:

- the majors labels (Universal Music, Sony, Warner and EMI)

- A dozen large independent labels (Naxos being the largest)

- hundreds of small labels

The majors mostly care about promoting a few star performers and milking their huge existing catalog. They have no problem with putting everything on subscription services for pennies. This what you find on all subscription services.

The larger independent labels also have significant catalog and some will also put part of it on subscription services but mostly won't.

However, it is totally financially impossible for the smaller labels which are actually recording most of the interesting new records to survive on the pennies they would get from subscription services. Most of them have rejected that model and caters to the increasingly niche market of audiophile still ready to buy new high quality music.

As a classical music fan, I'm happy to see that there will finally be an offering offering a good experience and massively increasing discoverability (which is terrible in mainstream services).

But unfortunately, this wont change the fact that the classical recording industry is dying and that the sector is only surviving thanks to public and private subsidies.

Re: Apple Music Classical

#25
This looks ok, but I can't be the only person suffering Content Fatigue.

Between access to infinite music, infinite movies and TV, infinite gaming, and infinite news - and that's just leisure - I'm not sure how much time I have left for a finite life.

Re: Apple Music Classical

#28
post #20

Err… downloaded on my iPad. It launches as a scaled iPhone app. You must be f’ing kidding me?

It does say it is iPhone only and in the FAQ

"Classical fans who want to listen on their MacBook, iPad, or in their car can open Apple Music to enjoy the tracks, albums, and playlists they saved in Apple Music Classical, thanks to the shared music library."

Which does not help me as I share from my mac - so hoiw do you do this?

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