If the app is only half as good as the Primephonic service that Apple acquired and shuttered and on which it is probably based, it will already be an asset for classical music lovers worldwide. Apps like Spotify are hugely inadequate for browsing classical music. Hell, in those you often even cannot read the entire title of a track because it is overstuffed with (meta) info.
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#12It's good that they finally released something on the back of the Primephonic acquisition: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/08/apple-acquires-classi...
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#13Maybe 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".
There is the slightly awkwardly-named idagio (https://www.idagio.com/), which has been doing the same kind of thing for a while.
(I'm not well placed to compare them, since I let my own idagio subscription lapse a couple of years ago due to lack of income, I never tried Primephonic before Apple bought it, and I don't have an iPhone so can't try the Apple service... aside from all that, I'm right in the target market!)
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#14>Available worldwide, wherever Apple Music is offered, excluding China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Taiwan, and Turkey. Err... why?
Probably licensing, if I have to make a guess.
Most likely licensing and not technical - we were one of the only classical music apps which streamed high quality audio through The Great Firewall of China, and as such was praised by a few magazines. That was back in 2018/19 though and the delivery infrastructure may have changed since being acqhired.
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#15applemusic.apple? why not music.apple? smh
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#16>Available worldwide, wherever Apple Music is offered, excluding China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Taiwan, and Turkey. Err... why?
Interestingly, the enforcement is through App Store and not through Apple Music account or ip address locality.
So, users from these countries can simply sign in with an Apple account from any other country, install the app, switch back to the actual account and use it just fine.
On any other service, including Apple TV plus, it's the other way around: You can access the app or the website but the content will be limited to your current physical location(ip address actually).
Which makes me believe that it's not about licensing. I haven't checked but probably the same songs are available on Apple Music anyway.
It's a mystery why Apple wouldn't release the UI for classical music in countries where they do offer the music catalog already.
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#17why the serif headline font tho? Because it's classical?
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#19Waiting for the destined to be equally popular "Apple Music Polka"
Did you read the announcement: > Why a separate classical app? > Classical music often involves multiple musicians recording works that have been recorded many times before and are referred to by different names. For example, from the formal Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14 to the popular byname of Moonlight Sonata, or in multiple languages, such as Mondschein Sonata in German. Such complexities mean that classical mu…
"Why a separate polka app?
Polka music often involves multiple musicians recording works that have been recorded many times before and are referred to by different names. For example, from the formal The Buffalo Touch’s Pani Mloda Polka to the popular byname of Bridal Dance, or in multiple languages, such as Säkkijärven polkka in Finnish. Such complexities mean that polka fans have been ill-served by streaming platforms. Until now. A distinct app, included with an Apple Music subscription, gives these polka music lovers the editorial and catalog content they’ve been missing.
Only a brand-new app — with specialized features and a beautiful interface designed for the genre — could remove the complexity and make polka music easily searchable, browsable, and accessible for beginners and experts alike."
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#20Err… downloaded on my iPad.
It launches as a scaled iPhone app. You must be f’ing kidding me?