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> For people who want to listen to pop, they're probably fine. But anything that's even a little niche is trouble. Or that's my experience, anyhow. O what happened to the idea of the “long tail”, eh?
I guess the idea is, why would you long tail when you can Pareto Principle?
I guess the truth was that it didn’t scale.
> applemusic.apple > not music.apple Good Lord! You had one job .
learn.APPLEmusic.APPLE/APPLE-music-classical
Three repetitions of "apple"! And the learn subdomain is meaningless. I like that they're using their .brand TLD but their URL strategy still needs some work.
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I might've been clearer I was making a joke, I suppose.
Oh. Sorry, I've heard that so many times with no hints of irony that it flew quite over my head.
> There’s no separate subscription for Apple Music Classical. It’s included at no extra cost with all Apple Music subscriptions except the Apple Music Voice Plan. Bit of a missed opportunity here to provide a cheaper subscription just for Classical. Apple could have captured Spotify users who would be willing to pay a small premium for a nicer classical UX, but would be unwilling to take out an additional full-priced…
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Lmao, classical and jazz are the two simplest forms of music. Without any lyrics to generate its basically just generating some simple patterns in basic instruments. There’s no way you’d be able to tell.
I personally would love to see some AI model imitate Thelonious Monk compositions and solos. The result would probably be hysterical
AI would need to be able to do something like create The Bad Plus in 1995. That's an even bigger mountain to climb.
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.
yeah there is new stuff, but when we speak of "classical music", we're really talking about long-dead people
Dvorak isn't going to be composing any new works, you can actually listen to everything Dvorak ever created and then you're "done"
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Given the enduring niche of physical media, why would a person choose non physical media for the artwork and leaflet experience? Would there be a UI that afforded the user thumbing through stacks, sliding the carton out, admiring the art as it is opened and an artifact unsleeved to be mated to a player? I suppose something like that would be possible with NFC (with write durability improvements). The NFC holds a toke…
One of the plan was to offer a bundled experience to the labels: you sell a physical media and the customer gets a code to add the album to their streaming library so they can also consume it digitally. Edit/PS: It really feels strange arguing for an idea, I've given up on so long ago...
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> For people who want to listen to pop, they're probably fine. But anything that's even a little niche is trouble. Or that's my experience, anyhow. O what happened to the idea of the “long tail”, eh?
I guess the idea is, why would you long tail when you can Pareto Principle?
IMO, that's not a great point. The music is already made - that's the hard part. It just needs to be licensed.
Maybe there are other channels that are more profitable than streaming, but I'm guessing that a lot of older/niche music is just locked away for no good reason.
At a certain point, I have to imagine that most artists would prefer their music be listened to if they aren't going to make money either way.
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if you want to be nitpicky, this app should be called Apple Symphonic
most of the symphonic music I prefer (late 19th century) would be considered from the romantic era
i.e. I don't consider Wagner to be "classical"
like...Philip Glass is not "classical" music...but he's a symphonic composer
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It’s not that high- some music streams with higher sampling frequencies and bit depths. The main snake oil phenomenon that goes on is up sampling cd quality recordings to these levels. That doesn’t accomplish much other than confusion. Certainly the majority of systems out there are not high end enough to appreciate higher quality recordings unless they are wired headphones (a quality setup there doesn’t cost too muc…
There is no system high-end enough to allow your ears to magically hear 96kHz, or even 48kHz. Unless you’re very young with golden ears it’s extremely doubtful that you can hear a 24kHz tone. It is absolutely snake oil. https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html is an overview by the creator of Ogg and Vorbis explaining exactly, scientifically, why these inflated sampling rates are snake oil. https://m.yo…