When is Apple Classical (or Primephonic) going to be available?

According to many German sites iOS 16.2 could bring the long awaited Apple Classical:

https://futurezone.at/produkte/update-ios-162-apple-streaming-klassik-primephonic-apple-classical/402203409

(though they are not completely sure...)

I'm guessing (and this is just a guess) that there's no new application coming.

Instead, I suspect that Apple is just concentrating on improving the metadata for the existing Music app to make it work better with classical music.

What evidence do I have? Well, just two things really. First, the absence of any new app. Second, the visible improvements in the organisation of classical music. Compare these two recordings of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. The first album is a list of tracks. Other then the track titles, there's no structure that indicates that there are individual concertos here:

Now look at the second (more recent) album. Each of the concertos is separated and its structure of movements is explicit.

There are some other improvements too. Maybe this will allow Apple to "solve" for classical music without deploying a separate app, or perhaps it's just a reflection of background activity that Apple is doing to make a new app work properly.

In the absence of a clear statement from Apple, we can only wait and see.

The best buy now is for Idagio for 56.99 a year-Stream flac lossless cd qa. Great site for classical. You can also get a year of live and previously recorded concerts on your tv with a 129.99 subscription for one year. not bad

Kayos, Nothing definite has been announced. As you know, they are way past the original target date.

Bad news, people. Apple Classical will probalby not be in iOS 16.3 and Ventura 13.2:

https://9to5mac.com/2022/12/14/ios-16-3-beta-1-now-available-features/

The waiting continues...

rff1013 wrote:

The biggest problem is the useless search capability. Trying to find a specific album/performance is a frustrating exercise in futility. Until that's fixed, Apple Music is pretty much worthless for any "serious" classical music fan.

True! Serious classical sites have a much different approach to Search. See example below from eclassical.com.

I still believe the separate app will come but I'm afraid not in 2022...

The new layout for the Classic music has been around for a while now but is by far not enough. Sometimes it's impossible to find out the composer of a track on iPhone or iPad because there is no "Show Info..." option on the tracks.

I told Apple Support I don't mind the raise in my Family Subscription but I do mind that they fail to keep their promise to have Apple Classical ready in 2022.

The biggest problem is the useless search capability. Trying to find a specific album/performance is a frustrating exercise in futility. Until that's fixed, Apple Music is pretty much worthless for any "serious" classical music fan.

That would be such a nice XMas present!

So funny, I don't care for alle the iOS/iPadOS 16 stuf and MacOS Ventura and the fancy lightning fast MacBook Pro's. All I want (for Christmas) is Apple Classical!

Eclassical has variable prices according to the length of the track. Short tracks are cheaper, long tracks cost more!