The result is a grand coalition of a cloud-based on-demand streaming service comprised of 30 million tracks, your existing iTunes music library, and an all-live worldwide radio station and - all living in one master app. So far, Apple has revamped its radio services with Apple One, appeased audiophiles with support for lossless audio, launched a cheaper voice-only service for Siri users, and offered an alternative service to those looking to leave Spotify.ДЄpple Classical is just the next step in Apple Music's quest for sonic domination - and if it's comprehensive enough to make such a wide and complicated genre accessible, it could just eclipse Spotify and become the best music streaming service on the planet.Apple Music, the iPhone giant's take on a subscription music service, has one goal: To push aside the likes of Rdio, Pandora, Slacker and - especially - Spotify to be a one-stop destination for all things music. On the contrary, the Classical section of the app is well-curated, with playlists from different eras, artists, and instruments, with options to listening in Spatial Audio for a super-immersive experience.ДЄpple can do better though, and its purchase of Primephonic will help its music streaming service cater to a wider audience. That's not to say that the entire experience of classical music search on Apple Music is bad. That's a lot of numbers to navigate - and that could be incredibly off-putting to a classical music novice dipping their toes into the genre for the first time. For example, this is what you see if you want to play an album of Mozart's Haffner and Jupiter symphonies: The lack of a universal way to search for classical music presents an issue for streaming services that want to make music discovery as simple as possible for its users - and the long titles that result from using the Opus system don't exactly lend themselves to mobile streaming. Mozart's compositions are ordered according to the KГ¶chel catalogue, with each work given its own K-number. Then you have individual composers who were so prolific that they were given their own cataloguing system. Some, like Massenet, used 'Opus 12B' instead of 'Opus 13' due to superstitions around the number 13, while many 20th century composers have ignored the system altogether.

The repertoires of many composers is catalogued via the opus numbering system, which allows individual compositions to be identified - however, this system is far from universal, with lots of composers only using it for some of their work. There's also the fact that older classical works are categorized in a different way to other genres. Works can be recorded by hundreds of different orchestras or musicians, making it difficult to find the exact recording you want - and if Apple Classical does make it easier to search by composer, repertoire, and other bits of metadata, the user experience will be hugely improved. Searching for classical music on a streaming service is a little more complicated than other genres of music. There's a huge amount of classical music available to stream on Apple Music already, so you may be wondering why the company would bother creating an entire standalone service for one music genre.

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