The largest change to Apple Music since it first existed is a huge new feature that has just been released.
The standalone Apple Music Classical app, which offers more than five million classical music recordings to Apple Music users, is the most recent addition to Apple’s music streaming service. Other additions include Apple Music TV, time-synchronized lyrics, and Apple Music Sing.
Apple announced on August 30, 2021, that it had purchased Primephonic, a streaming service for classical music, which it would later include into Apple Music. Since then, rare references to Apple Music Classical have been seen in the source code for the iOS betas. The app was first made available for preorder on the App Store on March 9, 2023, and it was finally released on March 28. The app was genuinely accessible for download as of March 27 at 11 p.m. PST.
Apple Music Classical is compatible with devices running iOS 15.4 or later, and was released shortly after Apple released iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4. While anybody can browse the app, only Apple Music users who have an Individual, Student, Family, or Apple One plan can utilize all of its features.
According to Apple, Apple Music Classical offers more than five million tracks, making it “the largest classical music archive in the world.” You can search for classical music using the newly created search tool by the catalog number, composer, conductor, work, opus number, artist, instrument, and even the work’s nickname. Many Basic playlists, comprehensive biographies of the composers, in-depth analyses of many important works, and user-friendly browsing tools are all available.
Once more, in order to enjoy all of Apple Music Classical’s features, you must have a subscription to Apple Music. Sadly, it is incompatible with the Apple Music Voice Plan. According to the new Apple Music & Privacy settings, anyone without a current subscription is able to peruse the Apple Music Classical repertoire.
Apple Music Classical, a classical music application that enables you to find and save your favorite classical tracks in one convenient location, is available to Apple Music members. Although you can browse the Apple Music Classical collection without a membership, in order to use all of its features, you need to have a subscription to Apple Music. You will be offered the option to sign up for an Apple Music membership if you don’t already have one in order to enjoy full access to Apple Music Classical.
You have access to the following with iOS 15.4 or later and an Apple Music subscription:
- Five million or more tracks of classical music.
- Many thousands of unique albums.
- over 700 playlists for editors.
- specialized classical music search.
- accurate and complete metadata.
- Up to 24-bit Hi-Res Lossless audio quality is available at 192 kHz.
- Dolby Atmos spatial audio for millions of recordings.
- Many biographies of composers, summaries of important works, etc.
- AirPlay assistance.
Although iPadOS isn’t mentioned as a supported OS on the app’s App Store page, it nevertheless functions on the iPad. You’ll see the iPhone view, which you may extend to full screen, because the iPad version isn’t optimized to function on that device. Although it isn’t yet accessible for macOS, a new “The Works” playlist with the best of Apple Music Classical is now available.
