Apple Music Classical 4+
Included with Apple Music
Apple
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- Free
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Description
Get the app designed specifically for classical music. Available to Apple Music subscribers at no additional cost. Instantly find any recording in the world’s largest classical music catalogue with search built for the genre. Enjoy the highest audio quality available (up to 24-bit/192 kHz Hi-Res Lossless) and hear classical favourites like never before in Spatial Audio, all with zero ads.
Apple Music Classical also makes it easy for beginners to get to know the classical genre thanks to hundreds of Essentials playlists, insightful composer biographies, deep-dive guides for many key works and intuitive browsing features.
The Ultimate Classical Experience
• Get unlimited access to the world’s largest classical music catalogue (over 5 million tracks) with everything from new releases to celebrated masterpieces, plus thousands of exclusive albums.
• Search by composer, work, conductor or even catalogue number, and find specific recordings instantly.
• Listen in the highest audio quality (up to 24 bit/192 kHz Hi-Res Lossless) and enjoy thousands of recordings in immersive Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos.
• Know exactly who and what you’re listening to thanks to complete, accurate metadata.
• Learn about each classical period with The Story of Classical audio guides.
• Dig deeper as you listen, with insightful album notes, descriptions of key works and thousands of composer biographies.
• Listen using AirPlay on compatible wireless devices.
Requirements
• Requires an Apple Music subscription (Individual, Student, Family or Apple One).
• Availability and features vary by country and region, plan or device. The list of countries where Apple Music Classical is available can be found at https://support.apple.com/HT204411.
• Apple Music Classical is available for all iPhones and iPads running iOS or iPadOS 15.4 or later.
• To listen to music on Apple Music Classical, you must have an internet connection.
What’s New
Version 1.3
This update contains stability and performance enhancements.
Ratings and Reviews
A needed improvement
The simple change to the interface to allow multiple liens for titles makes such a difference on mobile it is surprising that it took this long to happen. There is still an issue with operas where there are no divisions between acts or scenes making it difficult to identify the start and end of acts in newly discovered recordings.
Long awaited, greatly appreciated, work to be done
UPDATE: It’s now on iPad! Fantastic! Great for listening to hiRes recordings!
This is a great app for discovering Classical recordings that were hitherto difficult to track down on Apple Music. It seems to me that this is a client app to basically just add this stuff to your Apple Music app. At least as for as being portable and travelling is concerned. You can’t use this app offline, but you can save your things to Apple Music for offline use… That needs some work. I would like to segregate my listening. The worst thing with Apple Music is when I put on shuffle for some contemporary music and I get a random bass trombone sonata movement added to my shuffle list… While I love that music I prefer to listen to it intentionally and in its correct context. This app should be the place for all my classical listening, and therefore should be fully functional. The only other thing I would say is that the lack of support for the iPad interface is atrocious. I use my iPad as a HighRes DAP to connect to an amp and headphones. It’s a great way to get my audiophile setup going. But the interface for the iPad makes this use case less than ideal. Surely being developed in house would make this an easy fix. I’m no developer, but I have watched WWDC for numerous years now and I believe the scaling is native to swift…. Not sure how an “in house” app could be so deficient on one of Apple’s own flagship devices.
Developer Response ,
We are happy to share that Apple Music Classical now also offers a dedicated app for iPad.
Buggy and frustrating
Is it just me or is this app getting worse. I’m now constantly running into issues like tracks, pieces or playlists not playing when I tap them but only in some sections of the app. Just now a playlist wouldn’t play from the browse section no. After what I tried. I had to add it to my library then play it from there. Then when I tried to AirPlay to. HomePod it just. Wouldn’t. Froze for a bit the. Showed it was playing but with no audio coming from the HomePod.
This kind of nonsense along with missing features (offline listen, play queue management, or iPad app anyone?), slow and laggy performance, and just truly baffling UX design choices like splitting playlists in the my library into two seperate pages (mine and from Apple Music) forcing awkward navigation via ‘show all’ links and no playlist search across all playlist in my library, has me just going back to using the Apple Music app.
Developer Response ,
We are happy to share that Apple Music Classical now also offers a dedicated app for iPad.
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Information
- Seller
- Apple Pty Limited
- Size
- 20.2 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.4 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.4 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.4 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Apple Inc.
- Price
- Free