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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-...
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Not always, though. You had church funding and then patronage from the state. Beethoven famously ushered in a new era with his 5th symphony when he secured am advance from the bank to produce it, being the first large work to be produced through commercial investment. Individual patronage continued through the 19th century with notable examples like Tchaikovsky, though increasingly commercial aspects were present. Co…
There are a few composers I support on Patreon who also do their own production via extensive combinations of plugins and soundfonts in applications I've barely ever heard of before. The result is hard to distinguish from a human orchestra, save in the nature of the occasional errors, which are always of composition rather than execution. This would I think be a lot more common were it not such a niche interest. Even…
This is also a case of good old AI automating things that a great many humans enjoy doing saving us from the drudgery of human expression.
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People who care deeply about classical music will use this even at the same or higher cost than Spotify's now-inferior product. People who don't care at all about classical music won't use this at any price. People who like classical sometimes but don't listen to it exclusively should be happy that neither costs extra, both are included in the normal price. I'm not seeing any market opportunity for charging a lower a…
> People who care deeply about classical music will use this even at the same or higher cost than Spotify's now-inferior product I care deeply about classical music. But I'm already in Spotify's ecosystem, and don't want to bother with the switching cost. I would absolutely pay an add-on for Classical only, but don't want to pay for the whole Apple Music bundle.
Please if someone from Apple is listening: Please pay some attention to Indian music as well. I mostly only listen to Tamil songs and when Apple came out with iTunes Match or something where they analyze your library and match it to what they have in cloud, they just incorrectly matched songs with the Telugu version and ones from other languages and totally messed up my collection. And, this day and age, why should a…
I wonder why "applemusic.apple" and not just "music.apple", is it a trademark thing? The latter is certainly more cleaner
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> I wanted to apply the Steam business model where people would actually buy album again (and not tracks a la iTunes). Could you expand on this a bit? I am very much a track oriented person. Why do you think it would be better to force/encourage people to buy albums?
I don't know what OP's business model looked like exactly. However, classical music is often composed and performed as full works, such as symphonies, operas, and concertos, rather than individual songs or tracks. These works are often intended to be listened to in their entirety and are structured in a way that builds upon and develops themes throughout the piece. Another problem is that the way classical music is d…
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".
This app has that. You can browse composer's works and view popular/all recordings.
Looks like we were just ahead of our time. :-/