Why has Apple made a separate app for classical music?
March 28 is a special day for anyone who appreciates Western classical music. The app Apple Music Classical will make its debut and for subscribers of Apple Music, it’s free to access. This is Apple keeping its promise to offer a classical music app after acquiring the music service Primephonic in 2021. You already know this part but the bigger question is why do we need a separate app for classical music? Aren’t Apple Music or Spotify presenting that successfully? It’s a complicated question that has as an answer… metadata. You are looking for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 on a music streaming service. What you will get is a list of recordings based on the “title track”. It’s unlike the time when we bought the same on vinyl or CD. The list that’s thrown at you on a streaming service will have all kinds of takes on the symphony, even energetic rock performances. The problem is that the metadata considered by streaming services doesn’t take into account the conductor, orchestra and...