...why not just music.apple?
Probably because they're branding it as "Apple Music", not "Music (by) Apple".
Apple Music Classical
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#52This 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.
You don't have to listen to infinite music, watch infinite movies and tv, play infinite games, watch infinite news.
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I recently discovered the Anthology Of Indian Classical Music (UNESCO, 1955)[1], you might enjoy it.
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#54For those asking why they "didn't just" improve the existing music app. This is the rebranded version of a service called Primephonic which they acquired last year. This is obviously way less work than trying to jam it into the existing app, so I don't think it's an entirely unreasonable decision. https://www.apple.com/hk/en/newsroom/2021/08/apple-acquires-...
From a different thread on HN about the same topic, some commenters mentioned that the information architecture and navigation required for classical music is different enough from other music to warrant its own app. I would be surprised if Apple made a decision to cut corners on work and ship a product faster (because from their other products, they seem to be a company that believes in taking their time and delayin…
Yes, the structure is very different and having them both in one app would probably also make it confusing to users if views for the same like an "album view" look different just by clicking on different cover art associated with either Apple Music, or Apple Music Classical.
> because from their other products, they seem to be a company that believes in taking their time and delaying releases till they are done to a level that they deem satisfactory
This is definitely not the case for a long time already. Some people would probably say "Since Snow Leopard". If you use the Apple Music app on macOS, or really any recent macOS apps that was ported from iPadOS to macOS it's obvious that this is not true anymore. System Settings would be another such example.
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#55Strange 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 cl…
> 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. Bet $100 that all classical music will be AI generated (synthesized and composed) in just three years. Supply side will be infinite.
I'll take that bet at 5:1 against.
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#56>Available worldwide, wherever Apple Music is offered, excluding China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Taiwan, and Turkey. Err... why?
Interestingly, the enforcement is through App Store and not through Apple Music account or ip address locality. So, users from these countries can simply sign in with an Apple account from any other country, install the app, switch back to the actual account and use it just fine. On any other service, including Apple TV plus, it's the other way around: You can access the app or the website but the content will be lim…
Maybe they haven't finished localizing the content for those countries yet?
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#57Strange 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 cl…
I've used Idagio for 6 months. They have a reasonable interface, good performances and sound quality, but their catalog is indeed limited. There are hundreds of performances of the same well-known works, but there's not (very) much beyond it. I've discovered about 100 fairly unknown composers through YouTube that I consider quite good, but many of them are missing from Idagio, or are listed with one or two works. The…
> I still buy albums (mostly from prestomusic, in case someone wants to know)
I buy my classical music from Presto Music, too. The purchase process is easy, and maybe the performers get a bit more than from streaming.
I suspect that purchasing music files to own will seem increasingly strange and inconvenient to younger people, though.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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. Bet $100 that all classical music will be AI generated (synthesized and composed) in just three years. Supply side will be infinite.
I'll take that bet at 5:1 against.
> Bet $100 that all classical music
ALL classical music, in just 3 years. I'm perfectly willing to put my entire net worth on the line for this one.
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#59...why not just music.apple?
Probably because they're branding it as "Apple Music", not "Music (by) Apple".
On an iPhone the app is just called Music (similarly Google Maps is labelled just Maps on Android). This is exactly as weird as google maps domain being googlemaps.google.com
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#60This might be the thing that makes me jump ship from Spotify. Catalog there is not great and the track listings are all useless, you need to wait 30 second for the text to scroll before you get to the useful piece of information.
They actually haven't really improved on that, but I don't mind, because search and discovery are excellently done.