It's very surprising there's no iPad or Apple TV version of this. iPhone only is a bit of a shock.
Apple Music Classical
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#382Has anyone used Apple Music on Windows? Probably the worst experience of my life.
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#383A little bit off-topic perhaps but.. does the domain applemusic.apple look funny to anyone else? Like, why not just music.apple or applemusic.com or apple.com/music or music.apple.com lol
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#384Oh my, 192kHz/24bit. One would expect Apple would not need snake oil to sell their product. To those not so familiar with audio DSP: 192kHz and 24bit make perfect sense if you intend to mangle the audio a LOT afterwards. At 192kHz, you can pitch shift your audio down by two octaves and still have frequency content in the entire CD spectrum. Very useful, and common, for movie effects. And 24bit, or better even 32bit,…
Apple was one of the last streaming providers to adopt lossless audio. Even then, the "high res" part is optional. You can disable it and stream normal 44.1/16
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#385This is great - it being a separate app solves some core problems! It's a hard firewall between my "normal" music library and classical, which means risk free shuffle play. I never want Bach and Slayer in sequence. They can optimize the UI, recommendations, etc. based on music that is all about reproduction, rather than being performed by the original artists. Going against the grain and honing in on a total niche is…
> I never want Bach and Slayer in sequence. I've found interesting, creative serendipity in sequences like that. With dynamics controlling tools such as ReplayGain (and Apple Music has something similar built-in today though less well documented) to avoid massive "loudness war" shifts it doesn't even break a flow state for me sometimes and can be really interesting to my flow .
> and Apple Music has something similar built-in today though less well documented
Can I enable that somehow, or is it enabled by default?
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#386Please 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…
This touches on one of my least favorite things about Apple Music: They don't have different versions of a lot of stuff. I've seen many cases where a particular track they have with an album is actually a single version (or vice versa), and somewhat like your Tamil/Telugu issue, single and album versions can be quite different.
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#387Earlier quoted context omitted.
One impediment is the pop industry doesn't organize it that way. Classical does, so PrimePhonic/Apple didn't have to invent a new taxonomy to make a classical service. Apple and Spotify could use their market power to make labels backfill a more complex data format for pop.
...or, they could pay actual human beings instead of just relying on the crap data that labels provide. Although I guess that in today's world, I could just say "use AI to figure it out."
> Although I guess that in today's world, I could just say "use AI to figure it out."
Amazon do this and it doesn't work at all well for classical music. The album reviews are full of reviews for the same piece of music but different performances, it's not always easy to tell either. I stopped buying CDs from Amazon years ago, although primarily because they'd always arrive with cracked jewel cases.
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#388It's very surprising there's no iPad or Apple TV version of this. iPhone only is a bit of a shock.
Mobile only. I have a copy of it sitting on my iPad right now. It's the iPhone form factor, but seems to work.
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#389Earlier quoted context omitted.
One impediment is the pop industry doesn't organize it that way. Classical does, so PrimePhonic/Apple didn't have to invent a new taxonomy to make a classical service. Apple and Spotify could use their market power to make labels backfill a more complex data format for pop.
...or, they could pay actual human beings instead of just relying on the crap data that labels provide. Although I guess that in today's world, I could just say "use AI to figure it out."
I don’t see how that could work without cooperation from the labels since they, the artists and producers have the authoritative data about each track and album. Even then, going back more than a number of years accurately would be challenging.
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#390Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use spotify daily to listen to my playlists and find new music regularly. I have not noticed any dark patterns, apart from search on desktop being weird sometimes. What are they?
I only know of the upgrade splash screens where Dismiss is small and/or floating off of the brightly colored splash so it doesn't contrast and is harder to see. Exactly like Amazon Music.
That is nasty, but does not sound like a very bad behaviour. Annoying - yes, tricking user into doing something they had no intention to do - hardly.