I have had great experience with Apple music Classical. The spatial audio is really nice and as it’s based on Dolby Atmos technology and it works on the other Bluetooth and wired headphones as well, as it has more to do with mixing/mastering rather than the headphones if I have understood correctly. As far as I know the only thing limited to Apple headphones is the head tracking. The spatial audio can be turned on from the Apple music settings.
Well I'm very happy Apple did this, but frustrated they seem to have abandoned it. It's a year later and no port to the Mac. A single developer could port it in a month!
I like the app, I would like it more if they had a separate video game soundtrack genre & if I could view my own library by genre instead of just browsing new music by genre
The biggest drawback for me is the app doesn’t support the function of searching the albums in the library and it can’t add single song into the library as well, you can only add the whole album😢I think this app is just a classical music tool which based on Apple Music itself
What I really like is that if you already had classical music added to your Apple Music Library, it will show in this new app (Apple Music Classical), and also if you add something from the Classical app to your library, it will show in your other apps, like the Musica app on the Mac. So the new app is really just a very tailored search engine machine, which I really like. Saludos from México 🇲🇽
I had high hopes that one day someone would produce a system enabling me to quickly find any classical recording and play it on my system. This doesn't seem to be it. You see I don't play music on my phone. I don't use headphones, or those horrible things that fit inside my ear and cause much discomfort. If I'm not at a concert I sit at home and listen on wired speakers. If there was a system that ran on a proper computer with at least a 12 inch screen and connected straight into my amplifier then I might be interested. But I like in an era where the Goldberg Variations have somehow been converted to a collection of 32 'songs', which Apple Classical can play in random order, with applied 'Spatial' effects - the harpsichord or piano coming from all around. But then I'm quite old. Oh well.
It's not about your age. It's about hearing classical music properly in full 100% lossless. You can't get that from a wireless bluetooth airpod. It's a sign someone dropped the ball or no one knows what to do, or mismanagement, or something, that they didn't make the simple port of Apple Classical over to Mac. And give it an EXCLUSIVE mode so the lossless signal isn't resampled and lossy.
On the 'open sourcing the spatial audio' technology part, spatial audio is apple's name or term for the experience or 'mode' of the audio files. The actual technology itself is Dolby Atmos(Dolby does a lot of cool stuff with video and audio like dts or dolby vision), which is not exclusive for use by Apple. It is up to the headphone companies whether they want to use this or not. Maybe it's difficult to engineer such computation in headphones? Maybe they don't think it's worth the investment.
Two questions First What is the catalogue like. Will they have labels like Piano Classics or Atma.? What are the major Holes in the catalogue ? Second, Bluetooth is inherently not high rez. Have you listened to recordings with wired vs wireless headphones
Good question, i would say that having wired headphones will provide a better connection and therefore a better quality sound. You may not get spatial audio with a headphone that’s not Apple. At this time, there isn’t a feature where recordings are separated by label. Hope they can add this feature in a future update.
Have you tried the Apple Music Classical App? What do you like or don't like? Leave your comments below!
I've been looking forward to something like this since the earliest days of iTunes. Good work, Apple, and thanks too for the interesting video.
Thanks for watching and commenting in the community!
I have had great experience with Apple music Classical. The spatial audio is really nice and as it’s based on Dolby Atmos technology and it works on the other Bluetooth and wired headphones as well, as it has more to do with mixing/mastering rather than the headphones if I have understood correctly. As far as I know the only thing limited to Apple headphones is the head tracking. The spatial audio can be turned on from the Apple music settings.
Is it better than Idagio app?
I am glad Apple fially came out with its classical music app. I miss the dc booklets and an specific app for the iPad.
Thanks for this helpful review. I was wondering if they maintained the "Maestro feature" from Primephonic?
Well I'm very happy Apple did this, but frustrated they seem to have abandoned it. It's a year later and no port to the Mac. A single developer could port it in a month!
Compare to Idagio, please!
Actually, if you have Logic Pro, you already have Spatial Audio capabilities! I hope this clears out the “open-sourcing” thing.
I guess what I was implying is having spatial audio available in headphones in other brands instead of just Apple headphones/earphones
I like the app, I would like it more if they had a separate video game soundtrack genre & if I could view my own library by genre instead of just browsing new music by genre
That would be neat, that genre is growing in popularity
If you know anything about Siri and its history, that Siri integration problem with Apple Classical will NEVER be fixed.
Review the AirPod max for classical music
would you like to send me a pair to review? 😬
The biggest drawback for me is the app doesn’t support the function of searching the albums in the library and it can’t add single song into the library as well, you can only add the whole album😢I think this app is just a classical music tool which based on Apple Music itself
Agreed
Um.. you CAN add single songs i to libraries.. That’s the only thing I ever do with songs :)
Lord my Siri keeps going off
My bad 😭
What I really like is that if you already had classical music added to your Apple Music Library, it will show in this new app (Apple Music Classical), and also if you add something from the Classical app to your library, it will show in your other apps, like the Musica app on the Mac. So the new app is really just a very tailored search engine machine, which I really like. Saludos from México 🇲🇽
I had high hopes that one day someone would produce a system enabling me to quickly find any classical recording and play it on my system. This doesn't seem to be it. You see I don't play music on my phone. I don't use headphones, or those horrible things that fit inside my ear and cause much discomfort. If I'm not at a concert I sit at home and listen on wired speakers. If there was a system that ran on a proper computer with at least a 12 inch screen and connected straight into my amplifier then I might be interested. But I like in an era where the Goldberg Variations have somehow been converted to a collection of 32 'songs', which Apple Classical can play in random order, with applied 'Spatial' effects - the harpsichord or piano coming from all around. But then I'm quite old. Oh well.
It's not about your age. It's about hearing classical music properly in full 100% lossless. You can't get that from a wireless bluetooth airpod. It's a sign someone dropped the ball or no one knows what to do, or mismanagement, or something, that they didn't make the simple port of Apple Classical over to Mac. And give it an EXCLUSIVE mode so the lossless signal isn't resampled and lossy.
On the 'open sourcing the spatial audio' technology part, spatial audio is apple's name or term for the experience or 'mode' of the audio files. The actual technology itself is Dolby Atmos(Dolby does a lot of cool stuff with video and audio like dts or dolby vision), which is not exclusive for use by Apple.
It is up to the headphone companies whether they want to use this or not. Maybe it's difficult to engineer such computation in headphones? Maybe they don't think it's worth the investment.
Oh, I see! I didn’t know that. It would be cool if a company like Sennheiser could take up this challenge.
I miss the brochures and all the valuable info that usually is provided in a classical music production.
Actually, you can listen and read more about the piece inside the app itself. That’s one of the great things about it!
@@erictheviolinist I meant that it would be great if they added the brochures info to the app, in the same way Idagio does.
I remember that Primephonic often had the brochures available - not all albums but some.@@vichmora
Such a great video
It would be good to have your top 10 or top 5 best classical tracks on a video
Great idea!
Two questions First What is the catalogue like. Will they have labels like Piano Classics or Atma.? What are the major Holes in the catalogue ? Second, Bluetooth is inherently not high rez. Have you listened to recordings with wired vs wireless headphones
Good question, i would say that having wired headphones will provide a better connection and therefore a better quality sound. You may not get spatial audio with a headphone that’s not Apple. At this time, there isn’t a feature where recordings are separated by label. Hope they can add this feature in a future update.