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Apple Music Classical Begins Launching for iPhone Users Around the World

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Apple Music Classical is scheduled to launch on Tuesday, March 28. The app is already beginning to roll out for some iPhone users in countries with earlier time zones than the U.S., including Australia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, and others. The rollout will continue around the world as the calendar turns to March 28.

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Apple Music Classical became available for pre-order on the App Store earlier this month. The app offers over five million classical music tracks and is free to use with a standard Apple Music subscription on iOS 15.4 and later.

Apple Music‌ Classical is based on Primephonic, a classical music streaming service that Apple acquired in 2021. The standalone app leverages Primephonic's playlists and audio content, search capabilities, metadata, and more. Apple says the app features thousands of composer biographies, descriptions of key works, and more.



Apple Music Classical is available for the iPhone only at launch, with an Android version of the app coming soon, according to Apple. The app is currently available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Dutch.

Apple originally planned to launch a classical music app in 2022, but the app was not announced until this year. Apple shut down Primephonic in September 2021 and offered subscribers six months of access to Apple Music for free at the time.

Tags: Apple Music Guide, Apple Music Classical

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Monty Pavement
45 months ago
Time for the Apple Music Classical drinking game.

Take a drink every time someone posts saying -

- why does Classical need it's own app?
- this should just be included in the Music app
- will jazz and other styles be getting their own app as well?
Score: 24 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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c84216
45 months ago
Really excited to get my hands on this. Classical music is a nightmarish mess to find on Spotify and regular Apple Music. All the music by a particular composer moreso since classical releases are often labeled by the performer, not the composer. This is going to be wonderful for a lover of the orchestra like me.
Score: 16 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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cateye
45 months ago

The ipad uses the iPhone version of the app.
There's that Magical And Amazing™ attention to detail and user experience Apple is known for! (chef's kiss)
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️
45 months ago
Woo hoo! Exciting news. So many people are eagerly waiting for this. Let me play some classical Mozart! 🎶🎵

Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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Agathon
45 months ago
It's not as good as it could be. The metadata works well. However, the app does not handle saved albums very well. You cannot sort your library by composer. The composer tab just takes you to your favourite composers and those pages to options for streaming their work.

What I want is to sort my library by composer. You would think this would be the basic way that most users would want to sort their classical library (my record collection is sorted this way). There is no way to edit the library list the way there is in Apple Music either.

All I want is my classical collection organised by Composer > Album in the same way my regular Apple Music library is organised by Artist > Album. This allows you to get to what you want quickly. For example, I want to be able to quickly navigate to my library of Bartok to play my favourite 1955 recording of the Concerto for Orchestra, which I have saved. Apple Classical doesn't let me do that.

The fact that you can't seem to organise your library by composer in the app is completely moronic. Already given Apple polite feedback about this.
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️
45 months ago
Apple needs to update the Apple Music Classical App. This current one is too modern. Something like this?

Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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