Apple Music Classical

I like classical music to study to. I’m a medical student and it keeps me motivated and focused to do 10 hour study days. I was STOKED when I saw this app. Unfortunately, adding music to your library from this app adds it to your main Apple Music app as well. This is a HUGE bummer. I don’t want to rock out to Beethoven while driving, just studying. Really wish this app could keep songs separate from the main app, please add that as an option.

Disappointing— hangs up way too much! Frustrating to use because of that. Apple this is almost unusable! Not worthy of you, you should be ashamed.

11 April 2024. Apple is not listening! So annoying! This app continues to truncate box sets both within itself, and within the regular Apple Music app, too! It even destroys track lists retroactively! 125 tracks that were just visible suddenly vanish! Read below for details. 9 March 2024. Did iOS 17.4 fix anything? Not quite. Here’s the data to prove it: the Antal Doráti box set of Haydn’s Complete Symphonies on Decca contains 425 tracks, runs for 36 hrs 56 mins, and takes up 11.1 GB. Apple Music Classical (and even Apple Music itself, if you ask it to show the complete album) shows only 300/425 tracks, runs for only 24hrs 45 mins instead of nearly 37 hrs, and uses correspondingly fewer GB. iOS 14.4 solved part of the problem, at least for Apple Music, but inconsistently: the correct count appears — but then disappears if the user interacts with Apple Music Classical, which stubbornly erases all record of tracks above 300. The only semi-stable solution seems to be to download the entire 11.1GB and hope that Apple Music doesn’t decide to hide the 125 tracks above track 300 as Apple Music Classical keeps doing. All in all, it’s a mess. Yes, this is an edge case, not many people decide to listen to complete sets of symphonies, but the people who care about giant box sets are music lovers who care about exactly this sort of issue. If Apple wants to claim to serve discerning listeners, then it needs to be more thorough about what it offers them. 5 March 2024. Nearly a year later, Apple Music Classical still truncates box sets, and contaminates Apple Music, too! Apple is still unresponsive to this issue. “Complete” box sets are not complete, with many hours of previously accessible music missing and irretrievable. Deleting and reloading a box set does nothing. Example: until the launch of Apple Music Classical we could listen to all 108 symphonic of Haydn as conducted by Doráti (on Decca). Now only 78 works appear, and the rest have vanished completely, and can’t even be found. 30/108 works lost! Imagine someone selling books with the last third of the pages torn out, all the while bragging that this is quality service for discerning readers. This isn’t quality service, it’s an embarrassment for Apple. It really needs to be fixed. “ AMC truncates MORE “complete” recordings!!! 30 symphonies missing!” 1 April 2023: Apple Music Classical truncates box sets at just over 24 hours, regardless of content! AMC truncates the Adám Fischer recordings of Haydn’s 108 complete symphonies to just 78, stopping at exactly the same number and duration as on the Antal Doráti box-set by Decca Records: 78/108, just over 24 hours into the box-set. Both of these sets were available in their entirety before AMC. Now they are crippled on both the new AMC and the regular Apple Music apps. This is not coincidence, it is algorithmic policy, and a betrayal of the stated intent of AMC. That it contaminates and diminishes the original Apple Music offering is especially offensive and distasteful, threatening the entire logic of why anyone would subscribe to Apple Music services on either app. Apple please fix this problem soon, it is more alienating than you might imagine. Listeners can’t listen to untold millions of fragmented recordings, but they *can* listen to the complete and coherent recordings of their favorite composers, performed by their favorite conductors and ensembles. In a single app offering, you have spoiled one of the best features of your foray into classical music. Let’s call it a mistake that will be corrected soon, rather than a shame. Please fix this.

The catalog is large, sound is great but a few tweaks would make it perfect. I’d like a sleep timer that shuts off music. I’ve also had problems with the app booting me out when starting it. Music selection is top notch, but the sleep timer would make it great.

Good app but very glitchy. Will freeze and I will have to restart the app. I also dont like how you cant queue up songs, and not enough playlists! While I use the app, I dont see much gain using it compared to using the Apple Music app yet.

I love the concept and interface. The only problems are that firstly certain recordings aren’t organized well; I wish there was a place to submit support tickets for this specific sort of thing. Secondly, the interface is just pretty buggy overall. Other than that it’s awesome

Yes, listening to and finding classical music is easier on this app than in the regular music app, BUT, the execution is sloppy. The latest find: If you want to listen to Riccardo Mutti conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra for Beethoven Symphony Nos. 1 and 5, you can find it and play it, but to hear symphony no. 1 you have to play the symphony labeled as no. 5 and to listen to the symphony no. 5 you must choose symphony no. 1. They’ve swapped them! There’s no mistaking the two, right? But that’s exactly what Apple has done. What else has been mixed around? It’s VERY sloppy, uncaring, execution. Please fix this, Apple.

I truly love everything about this app except that it doesn’t work with CarPlay!!! Very frustrating.

Current functions overlap with apple music, but playlists can not be shared between the two. Carplay doesn’t work. Needs improvement.

I love the concept. I love the app, when it works. There are SO many bugs. First off it doesn’t load sometimes and therefor simply won’t play the music even when my regular music app will. Also the music by mood playlists will sometimes play one song when you click on them and not let you skip to other ones. I cannot click on the joyful playlist without it only playing nutcracker, it stopped doing that one time in the past 3 months. Also you cannot shuffle. PLEASE fix this app.