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Apple Music Classical

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Re: Apple Music Classical

#291

> applemusic.apple > not music.apple Good Lord! You had one job .

Oh it's even worse than that: 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.

Give them time, it’s not like they can afford to hire capable people.

Re: Apple Music Classical

#293

I would love to see something like this for jazz, which has musicians constantly moving through groups and albums as musicians and composers and writers. Like take "Take Five", one of my favorites. It was written by Paul Desmond for the Dave Brubeck Quartet, with solos by Desmond on alto sax and Joe Morello on drums. Those are all fun pieces of information that I wish I could click through to see more of. Just like c…

This too is one of my favorite songs, but in a slightly different style:

https://youtu.be/rbt78buj80Q

Re: Apple Music Classical

#294
Of course… “This app is not available in your country or region.”

Silly me, why would I ever think something like that spplies to me.

> Available worldwide, wherever Apple Music is offered, excluding China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Taiwan, and Turkey.

??? Why are Japan and Taiwan listed together with a bunch of terrorist states?

Re: Apple Music Classical

#295

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Relating to it as a creative process. Connecting directly with the artist, mind to mind, through the art. Being liberated from my current perspective. Story telling. Revolutionary mental states. New synergistic paradigms. All the actual reasons why people have been making art for many 1000s of years. Or, just keep your pacifier, baby ;)

Thanks. I've chosen to think of art in terms of products I consume, and less as admiration of artists, though of course I do some of the latter too.

You should not admire artists, but I'm sad for you that art is just a product for you, and not a source of your own expression. Some people naturally gravitate to a subservient, non-creative position.

Re: Apple Music Classical

#296
post #294

Of course… “This app is not available in your country or region.” Silly me, why would I ever think something like that spplies to me. > Available worldwide, wherever Apple Music is offered, excluding China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Taiwan, and Turkey. ??? Why are Japan and Taiwan listed together with a bunch of terrorist states?

where are you? in Croatia it’s available, but icloud one or books, or tv+ isn’t

Re: Apple Music Classical

#297
post #80

192kHz/24 bit, what a wonderful piece of snakeoil... What do they actually record with this frequency, bats talking to each other about classical music?

That number is common in professional contexts, Apple is just publishing the highest “quality” available. Whether this is useful is up to the listener, who can just as well decide to listen to 192kbps AAC instead.

In a world where videos and photos are still shared at laughable resolutions, let’s not scorn decisions to preserve media in the highest possible quality.

Re: Apple Music Classical

#298
I don’t really listen to classical but this app gets me interested a bit especially with the instruments feature, also the era selection. You can also choose by conductors but that’s something fanatics would be able to hear lmao, it’s the same song, but conducting is supposed to make a difference?

Re: Apple Music Classical

#299
post #38

For 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-...

I hadn't looked at Primephonic in a while, but their site is now just a letter on how they're working with Apple: https://www.primephonic.com/

As of just now, that link redirects to the "Apple Music Classical" press release page.

Re: Apple Music Classical

#300
post #294

Of course… “This app is not available in your country or region.” Silly me, why would I ever think something like that spplies to me. > Available worldwide, wherever Apple Music is offered, excluding China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Taiwan, and Turkey. ??? Why are Japan and Taiwan listed together with a bunch of terrorist states?

Not sure about Taiwan, but maybe because Japan is like a terrorist state in regards to music licensing?
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