Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Apple’s Classical App Explained: What’s Fun — and What Falls Flat”.
Foreign, this is the kind of performance from Apple you don’t see every day. Thank you. This week we saw the debut of a new body of work from Apple, orchestrated by Engineers for over a year and a half the Apple music, classical app. This is a separate app only on iOS, so don’t need this anymore. It works as a duet with the Main Music app.
So yes, it means Apple users may find themselves switching between two different apps for streaming. Music sounds complicated right well, just like actual classical music enjoying it doesn’t have to be as intimidating as it may seem at first and yet streaming classical music in a logical way is a complicated problem to solve Apple successfully, created an app to present classical libraries intelligently And it gives users plenty of fresh programming to discover and browse, and that alone is a feat considering this app is juggling 20 000 composers and over 115 000 Works Apple says there are over 5 million classical tracks, and where do you start when a single famous Piece can have hundreds of recordings, there’s just a crazy amount of data for music spanning hundreds of years in different styles, not to mention people searching for something in different languages. But there is one more thing to consider here Beyond. Just good organization did Apple, make something enjoyable to come back to and to get people wanting to sign up for Apple music. If Apple misses some notes at launch, will future attempts to better music libraries be soured? We will go over the dynamic of what I like and what I don’t like some things, major some minor, I’m Bridget Carey, and this is one more thing and Ode to Apple music, classical in four movements.
Let’S Dive Right In with examples of how the navigation is different enough to make classical music welcoming to everyone. Oh you want some Beethoven. You want the piano Concerto Number Five! Well, Apple’s got 491 recordings.
What do you do with that? Much information? It needs expert curation. Obviously so Apple’s got a team pointing you toward where to start popular Works have an editor’s choice of which performance it thinks is worthy of your ears, along with other popular recordings to highlight, and quality is really important here. So it lets you find tracks with high-res lossless audio.
There are also tracks with Dolby Atmos spatial audio, so it makes it feel like you’re in a 360 degree soundscape of instruments just hitting you from all directions. If you have the speakers to enjoy that kind of thing in other music streaming apps, if you try to search for something specific, it would be a struggle because information is often truncated and cut off and finding a certain performance through search can be tricky. This classical app has a lot more data points to search through such as all the artists that were involved, the nicknames for the piece and when it was released, it clearly divides up a work by its various movements, we’re not just talking about lists of music, for Example, look at Franz least Apple’s making this app look good with fresh art, guiding you to popular Works, throw one in a little biography to teach you something, and if you like his style, you could see related composers.
Now, experts will find it easy to hunt for what they want quickly, but I’m not an expert. I just appreciate the art, after taking years of piano lessons as a kid, and that helps me make cringy music puns for you now and also takes me to what I love the most about this app as someone who didn’t go to Juilliard but did go to The Juilliard gift shop to buy this baton – the listen now page, has so many gems to enjoy without putting too much thought into it, because someone else at Apple is putting thought into it. For me, aside from highlighting various albums, you expect that kind of thing they’re. Putting work into having different curated playlists, some playlists are from famous artists like Yo-Yo Ma and some are recommendations made by mood.
It’Ll keep changing up over time. Some playlists are even broken down just by instrument. So if you’re in the mood for some flute jams get down with Debussy Apple knows it has to hook classical fans. So it is serving up a lot of exclusive performances and albums as well, but I get hooked on some of the programming that they made.
There’S this nine part series called the story of classical. It is a little bit of a podcast, and a little bit of a college crash course guiding you through the wide variety of classical music. That’S out there like a beginner’s guide, I’m on the first episode. So far, it’s pretty good but getting started on this app does take a little getting used to because you can sometimes find yourself straddling to music app worlds, and this takes us to the third movement.
The dissonance these two apple music apps have some crossover, but not every setting will match up exactly listening to an album or playlist in one app does make it appear in the other app under recently played, and if you save it to your library and one, you Should see it in the other app as well, so, for example, I had film scores already in my main library and that showed up in my classical app now, if you find something you like in classical, you should add it to your library or make yourself a Playlist, but there is not yet a way to download a song In classical, but there is a workaround to make a playlist in classical switch on over to the main music app and in the main, that’s where you’re gon na download the tracks. So you can listen offline, it’s a few extra steps, but something that I’m thinking Apple could improve in a later release. Another way the classical app Falls flat. Well, it’s only iOS. I listen to most classical music while I’m working and it would be nice to have access to that through the Mac or, if you’re like me, and enjoy yelling at your Siri speakers to play things for you.
Well, no Siri cannot up things from the classical app series only connected to Apple music, at least for now. I like to see apple Stitch, these worlds together better with Siri foreign. I like talking about this app because music is important.
It connects us across time it’s human emotion, across cultures, so it’s kind of cool and it’s fascinating to see apple, take on a daunting task of redesigning how we think about streaming, music, all because pop music just isn’t as complicated as classical works. Sometimes we think of classical as a bunch of old music written by guys and powdered wings, but it’s got more depth than that, making it better to search and discover these tracks is going to help us keep better records for old and modern work. These digital libraries are just getting huge and better organization and Discovery tools. It’S going to help us not lose track of works from the past, including pieces from women, composers who may not have had as much attention as men over the years. This app didn’t just appear Out of the Blue Danube. Back in 2021, Apple purchased the classical streaming app Prime phonic to spin out its own version.
Now Apple said it would be released in 2022, so it’s just three months late Apple moved at a slower Tempo than expected a bit Adagio. You might say now, if you want all the details, you can check out my previous video detailing how it came to be and why streaming classical music has so many challenges, but if you’ve been poking around the classical app, I do want to hear from you in The comments on what you think of the experience so far for me, although I’m disappointed, I can’t use Siri with it. I say this launch is pretty cool, so far break out the brass, it’s time to celebrate, not just for the music experts. This deserves some Fanfare for the Common Man.
It’S been quite the week for Apple news. We got iOS 16.4 Apple pay later is now available and we got a date for WWDC Mark those calendars for June 5th. There’S going to be lots of Apple Action to follow so subscribe and I’ll see you next week. Thank you, a well-deserved rapturous Applause for that rousing finale.
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