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Maybe they haven't finished localizing the content for those countries yet?
Maybe, but some of those countries are quite big markets. Why would Apple miss out on those?
The composers may be largely long-dead, but the recordings are controlled by labels, so there are rights involved.
applemusic.apple? why not music.apple? smh
My guess is that the team developed the site without knowing whether they'd have permission to deploy it on *.apple or not, so they put apple in the domain basename and it was deemed not worth it to take it out once they knew the deploy target. Just guessing, though.
This has to be a joke, right? Given Apple's enmity towards headphone cables, I don't see the point. Their Bluetooth EarPods can never ever render the necessary sound quality.
First, surely you grasp that many people use these things called "speakers" to listen to music. Not all consumption is done with headphones.
Second, even if we narrow the question to headphone listening, the "failure" or "unsuitability" of Bluetooth for headphones is profoundly overblown. In 2023, gGood headphones, wired or wireless, sound fine if given a decent source.
I was definitely a skeptic, and while I couldn't set up anything like ABX testing, I have spent time trying to honestly compare my AirPods MAX to my price-peer wired Sennheisers run through a FiiO headphone amp.
The tl;dr is that it's POSSIBLE the traditional wired setup might sound a tiny bit better, but both sound REALLY REALLY GREAT. Any edge possibly enjoyed by the traditional setup was thin, and only evident in fairly narrow cases.
I was pretty surprised given my original bias against wireless headphones for critical listening, but here we are.
This has to be a joke, right? Given Apple's enmity towards headphone cables, I don't see the point. Their Bluetooth EarPods can never ever render the necessary sound quality.
How is Apple Music playback on Amazon Echo devices? Does Apple have anything as nice as Spotify Connect? My current setup is that I have an Echo Dot connected by the line out to my A/V receiver, with the microphone turned off. With Spotify Connect the Spotify on my computer or phone can tell the Spotify on the Dot to play a song, album, or playlist. The Spotify on the Dot then streams that music from Spotify. I can t…
Yes, this works great.
> …but I don't want to choose my music by voice. I want to do the choosing on my Mac or phone/tablet.
This also works but requires using Bluetooth. There's no way to "hand off" from an iPhone/iPad to Alexa as you can with a HomePod.
...why not just music.apple?
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I would bet heavily against that any such generated music to become popular (except maybe as bad filler music for video games music etc). The truth is that classical music fan are very very picky about what they like. Computers have been "better" musician than human for a long time: a midi file is always played "perfectly". Yet it's sounds horrible, mechanised to our ears. The controlled imperfection of a real human…
Can't speak for generated compositions but midi data is played however your software is programmed to do so, which could include adding imperfections.
This is why the act of playing music by a human is called a "performance", an "interpretation" in some languages. The musician is not just playing a score exactly as it is written, the musician gives a part of his/her into the act and make the music his/her own to make art.
Wished there is an option to control the dynamic range.
This might be off topic but has anyone else noticed the sloppiness in Apples' websites lately? On both Safari and Firefox on my machine the titles on this page appear without the correct fonts (falling back to Times). On apple.com a lot of buttons (eg. the buy button on https://www.apple.com/mac/ ) lead to 404 pages. Trying to report these issues seems impossible, of course.
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Beyond pricing, what's their strategy here trying to unbundle music? Are they going to release a different music app for every genre? If it's just a classical app, does that mean I now have to use two apps to switch between music based on genre? What benefit is there other than slightly better UX which presumably could be bundled in an existing app.
> What benefit is there other than slightly better UX The way people (like me) listen to classical music is different from the way they listen to other kinds of music. For example, I might want to listen to Beethoven's String Quartet No. 12. This has four movements, and I want the player to play from movement 1 through movement 4 once I touch the play button. This is very different from wanting to play (say) Price Ta…
How is this any different from listening to an album or any other logical grouping of tracks with an order?