Apple Music Classical

It sure doesn’t seem like Apple spends much time on this app. It has always been filled with so many bugs, to the point that it can be unusable at times. Surprised Apple let a product this low quality out into the market.

I just updated your app and noticed a new icon towards the top when I was certain albums. When I tapped on the icon, it brought up what I am assuming are the album booklets. I am so thrilled to see this! I really, really hope this feature comes to Apple Music! Artists like Bjork used to have such wonderful album booklets that drew me to the album b/c the art used to also set the stage for music landscape. I really want to urge Apple to deploy more digital assets like this immerse listeners/customers into artists’ worlds they create. Thank you!

There are things missing that every player on the planet contains such as shuffle and better search features. The response time lags on the app, and connections with external speakers is sub par at best. One star because this is the year 2024, not 1999. Apple are losing my faith in being able to produce reviewed, tested products that appear to have at least been vetted by employees first. At least it is “sort of” free if you fess up over $4.99 currently. How completely broken is Apple Music backend database that classical music requires a supplemental app completely? Seems like this could just be another category in Apple Music TBH. The behind-the-scenes of music must be atrocious.

The app keeps getting better and better with time. The CarPlay addition is awesome. I’m still waiting for the AppleTV version to appear loaded with great video performances on top of the great audio performances; perhaps some live performances too? Well, I can only wish. 🤔

(Point update: 2.1 Adds CarPlay, which is great. The rest below still applies, though….) Update: With the 2.0 release of the Classical Music app, it’s now way past time for the release of native versions for Apple TV and MacOS. I like the new booklets feature and really appreciate that this app exists at all, but it’s feeling more like I should deduct another star for the missing versions of this app. ——- First and foremost, an app that caters to classical music’s different organizational conventions is revelatory. Classical music recordings as a music store afterthought is an age-old problem, dating back to most bricks-and-mortar record stores that had a few bins off in the corner, organized by some kid who could care less about it. That carried forward into iTunes and then Apple Music. Something as simple as browsing by composer or instrument wasn’t possible. Enter this classical music app. Having things organized based on the greater complexity inherent in the genre is not only great for enthusiasts, but will help people new to classical music finally get past the “Best of Mozart” and “Soothing Classical Piano” compilations before they lose interest. Even better, having this feature available as an included part of an Apple Music subscription truly democratizes the genre. That organizational complexity means added variables, and so Apple’s decision to introduce the app only on a single device at first makes some sense. Work the kinks out on iPhone before adding more variables by modifying the UI for iPad, Mac, and Apple TV devices. After considerable time exclusive to iPhone, Apple has now added a native iPad version of the app. Now, a native AppleTV version of the app can’t come too soon. It should not be lost on Apple that the target audience for this app likely has a higher propensity to prefer listening through home sound systems with amplifiers tied to good speakers. For instance, I have an Apple TV box wired to my Atmos-capable audio system in the den. Presently, the iPhone/iPad Classical app is good for searching and finding things, but then I have to save it to my ‘library’ and then pull it back up in the regular music app to listen via the Apple TV. Of course, that’s a reasonably manageable workaround, but we buy into the Apple ecosystem for “it just works,” not for workarounds. Please finish the rollout of this app to run natively on all Apple devices!

The app is missing folders in Playlists

One user interface that hooked me was music search by how you feel in general categories- works great in my world!

Зачем надо было делать отдельное приложение?

I’m sure the purists will find flaws, but I’m happily lost in this app and find it a huge improvement having moved it out of the standard Apple Music app. Would love to see Apple do the same with jazz. Cheers!

So frustrating. Any reason why we can’t shuffle? Any logical explanation?