Apple Music Classical

Why does Classical require a separate app? Is this not Music? What am I missing? What a slap in the face to not consider this a catagory within Music.

When classical first came out, it was buggy and hard to use. Now it’s great and my preferred music experience. It would be nice to decouple settings between Music and Classical, it would be nice to be able to enable lossless only for Classical and not on the main Music app.

I’m with Zucker 100% regarding his informational requirements!

Short: it hasn’t been updated for iOS 26 - it crashes every time

PLEASE ADD SHUFFLE. WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON?!

Did you guys notice you made the liquid glass icon show up on the iOS 18 version of this? No other apple app has done this since the iOS 26 release, I hope it’s a bug. Looks terrible.

This app used to work perfectly, yet it continues to crash and will not open

This application represents pure contempt for fans of classical music. After abusing its market power several years ago to acquire Primephonic, a wonderful classical music service that worked with an array of hifi streaming technologies, Apple killed the service and deprived the classical music world of a decent streaming option. After offering no application for over 18 months, Apple released this incredibly weak replacement. Where are complete liner notes, Apple? Why is your search capability more limited than Primephonic’s was? Where are downloads? Why can’t I create an ad-hoc queue without creating a playlist? Why did it take a year and a half to see an iPad app? Why buy a service you don’t care about and won’t invest in? This is a disgusting insult. Shame on you, Apple. [Update: crashes constantly on iOS 26. It is so clear that Apple doesn’t care about this product at all.]

good for sound engineering to set up equalization after signature

This app is a great idea: Surface and curate classical/baroque/early music. The Apple Music app does offer classical music, but you have to get past the Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber material. Having a special place in a separate app for just classical music is a superb concept. If done right, this Apple Music Classical app should be a reason to buy an iPad/iPhone/Mac. 👍 What the app gets right: - Graceful presentation, visually and logically. - Searching by various dimensions: composer, musician, orchestra, title, etc. - Curation: Various albums are suggested almost daily, but not so rapidly as to be overwhelming. - Album previews: New albums are displayed, with a due date, and with a couple of preview pieces available until then. - Playlists: While no radio-style streams are available, the staff at Apple do post playlists with dozens of pieces. Each list is mood-themed such as “Late Evening”, “Classical A.M.”, “Piano Chill”, “Melancholy Strings”, “Relaxing Classical”. These are updated every several days, often enough to remain fresh and interesting but not too often (we can return for repeat listens). - Artwork: Lovely photos and album covers appear for most material. Some are even animated for a bit of fun. 👎 What the app gets wrong: - Flagging favorites, marking for remembering: The app has a bewildering mix of stars and menu items for sort of marking “favorites”. But the exact meaning of this is never defined in the app or the documentation. They seem to blend two different concepts of (a) marking a favorite that i want to revisit soon, and listen a few times, start-term memory, and (b) the artists and albums that I want to remember for future exploration, long-term memory. - Downloading is an absolute disaster. Whole albums download automatically and mysteriously, filling up my iPad until iPadOS warnings appear. There is no indication of what music is or is not downloaded. There is no way to just say “download this album now”. There is no way to say “remove this album now”. Apparently marking content with a star triggers downloading which is a terrible conflation of purposes. Making a playlist, tracking history, marking favorites for frequent return, and long-term tracking of albums & artists of interest should all be separate features. But the Apple team has mixed them into a confusing mess. Completely clearing downloads is actually impossible. You can go into Settings app, dig down to the “Music” app (not the “Classical” app), and tediously delete songs. But then they almost immediately re-appear and fill the iPad again. Eventually I found some button somewhere to stop the downloading, though I have no idea where. And that only slowed the downloading. Now gigs gradually appear weekly, with iPadOS reporting several to a dozen gigs of space taken my “Music”. But the app settings report zero downloads of any music. After asking an AI, I got the suggestion to delete both the Apple Music app and the Apple Music Classical app. It worked, for now, but good grief… deleting apps as a way of managing storage? The solution is simple: (a) fix bugs, and (b) make downloading explicit. Every album display a “Download” button that clearly indicates if currently downloaded or not. And there should be a list, within the app (not within Settings) that shows currently downloaded material. There we should be able to delete instantly. And there we should be able to play the music conveniently for times we are without an Internet connection. Summary: the Classical app has opened up vistas of wonderful music for me, making an Apple Music subscription well worth the money. But wrestling the app’s flawed design and flawed implementation of favoriting and downloading becomes an aggravation.