Apple has always given an important place to music in its operating system. Since the release of the iPod, Apple has been working to make music a priority. The Cupertino company might launch a new “Apple Music Classical” application.
The latter would be centered solely on classical music and it would follow the takeover a few months ago of the specialized streaming service Primephonic. Beta code discovered in the latest version of iOS 16.4 suggests that listening to Apple Music Classical will require installing a new app.
In 2021, during the first speech regarding this new service, the Apple brand had assured that the launch would take place in 2022. For the time being Apple has not provided any explanation for this delay and the firm of Cupertino might never give any.
The launch of the application might take place in the coming weeks, with the deployment for the general public of a stable version of iOS 16.4. Rumors are in any case numerous regarding the new music service from Apple. Already in earlier versions of iOS 16.3 lines of code had been found indicating that the application was regarding to be released.
While waiting to see Apple’s native service launch, other platforms already offer applications and services dedicated to listening to classical or jazz music. This is particularly the case of Presto which has just launched its own platform. Available in France, Switzerland and Belgium for a few days, the offer offers a catalog of classical music among the best known. The subscription costs €10.99 per month without obligation. The catalog currently contains more than 200,000 different albums.
The classic: a genre apart?
Apple Music already offers to listen to classical music, just like the popular platforms Spotify or Deezer. But unlike Presto Music, they don’t have a good enough level of processing, which makes the experience less enjoyable.
It is this difference in the treatment of audio tracks that should lead Apple to create a special application for classical music. Other issues appear to be delaying the launch of Apple Music Classical. The application might have trouble structuring itself.
The classic “artist/album/song” model doesn’t really make sense in the classical world, just like the remuneration that can’t be done for the track listened to, the durations being very different between a solo of a few seconds and a half-hour concerto.
All these issues are, according to the latest rumors, the cause of the delay of Apple Music Classical. The apple brand, however, would have ended up finding a solution, both for the establishment of a catalog and for the remuneration of artists. The former Primephonic service had chosen to pay performers and composers per second of listening, a practice which might be renewed in a few weeks by Apple with its own application.
