Apple Music Classical begins rolling out to international users
Apple Music subscribers around the world are beginning to get the new Apple Music Classical app, starting with users in Australia and Asia.
The long-awaited Apple Music Classical is due to launch on March 28, 2023, but for some countries around the globe, that date has already come. Consequently the first sightings of Apple's new classical music service are beginning to appear in tweets from users in those nations.
As yet, there are only a few scattered examples of downloads in different countries. This may be because Apple does not appear to be promoting the launch, not even in countries where it is now available.
However, users who pre-ordered Apple Music Classical when it was announced, will get a notification when it is in their local App Store.
Although the service and app are not available in Canada, at time of writing, Canadian publication iPhoneInCanada has sourced a range of screenshots showing Apple Music Classical in action.
Apple Music Classical in use. (Source: iPhoneInCanada)
Apple Music Classical should be available for all Apple Music subscribers in most countries around the world. The exceptions are China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Taiwan, Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan, though Apple has not detailed why those countries will miss out at first.
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The long-awaited Apple Music Classical is due to launch on March 28, 2023, but for some countries around the globe, that date has already come. Consequently the first sightings of Apple's new classical music service are beginning to appear in tweets from users in those nations.
#AppleMusic Apple Music Classical .. Apple Music pic.twitter.com/aha7K8gs3N
-- jetboat (@jetboat26)
As yet, there are only a few scattered examples of downloads in different countries. This may be because Apple does not appear to be promoting the launch, not even in countries where it is now available.
However, users who pre-ordered Apple Music Classical when it was announced, will get a notification when it is in their local App Store.
Although the service and app are not available in Canada, at time of writing, Canadian publication iPhoneInCanada has sourced a range of screenshots showing Apple Music Classical in action.
Apple Music Classical in use. (Source: iPhoneInCanada)
Apple Music Classical should be available for all Apple Music subscribers in most countries around the world. The exceptions are China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Taiwan, Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan, though Apple has not detailed why those countries will miss out at first.
Read on AppleInsider
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The video would only play if I already subscribed to AppleMusic.
Considering that part of the rational for AC is to get more people to subscribe to AM, putting your ad for AC behind an AM paywall, something many of us don’t subscribe to, is pretty F-ing stupid.
So far I’ve not been impressed with how Apple is handling AC. I’ll wait for the reviews, but…
Classical music fans who already have their own libraries set up and listen it on an AppleTV hooked to a sound system, or worse, a Mac hooked to a sound system, or still yet worse, a PC hooked to a sound system and still yet even worse, haven't previously subscribed to a streaming service are all going to be prone to claiming that the system isn't working, not because the system actually isn't working, but because it's not working the way they have independently devised a digital classical music catalog to work.
So yeah, it's probably a good idea for them to do a soft opening on the iPhone geared primarily to people who already have an Apple Music subscription.
They are competing against the classical streaming service I already have and have paid for, and are losing BADLY.
🤦♂️
The app experience is great. Hopefully they adopt it for the Music app.
Metadata tagging in albums seems to be ordered more hierarchically by works rather than just a list of tracks. No option to download for offline listening on iOS.
Seems like they did an okay job to keep it familiar and keep any classical music you already have in Apple Music.
It’s the streaming service of a public broadcasting station out of Portland Oregon. Plays a nice variety of music, the hosts are very knowledgeable, they have some special programs, you can go back and see what they played, and they have links to purchase it if you want. They even have their own App.
The full titles and not truncating is the main difference. It's not limited by two lines as Apple Music is. I can see the full title of each song.
Browse is also light years better. Objective breakdowns of Composers, Periods, Instruments (!) etc, rather than like in Apple Music, which is a presentation of genres and playlists I have no interest in (nor have any control over what is presented).
You could’ve just said you like radio better, instead of claiming the new Apple classical music app isn’t as good as this other app you’re paying for, like you were comparing apples to apples.
I mean, this actually reinforces what I wrote above, but in an unexpected, even more spectacular example. I was suggesting that many classical music fans might get cranky that this new app doesn’t catalog things exactly as they would. Here, you’re criticizing the app by comparing it to a radio station, something that’s not even in the same category. I’m trying to think of a metaphor to demonstrate how obtuse that is, but I think your example stands on its own, in all its own glory. Congratulations!
Major fail Apple……major fail
Once things have settled out a bit, they will probably enable downloading for offline listening after folks have had time to explore the app and get used to it. At that point, more people will be accustomed to the fact that all of the content will be available online whenever you want it, and that downloading is only necessary if you need to take a few things with you while you're on a plane or somewhere else where streaming isn't ideal. Meanwhile, you can still go right over to the regular music app and download the exact same content there if you're about to get on a plane.