The reason behind Apple’s launch of a dedicated classical music iPhone app

Apple has released a support document detailing the rationale behind the launch of a standalone Apple Music Classical app, which was created to accommodate the intricate metadata associated with classical music.

Apple says the app was designed to support classical music’s complex metadata:

Classical music is different. It has longer and more detailed titles, multiple artists for each work, and hundreds of recordings of well-known pieces. The Apple Music Classical app is designed to support the complex data structure of classical music.

Apple offers a longer explanation on a new Apple Music Classical page:

Classical music often involves multiple musicians recording works that have been recorded many times before and are referred to by different names. For example, from the formal Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14 to the popular byname of Moonlight Sonata, or in multiple languages, such as Mondschein Sonata in German. Such complexities mean that classical music fans have been ill-served by streaming platforms. Until now. A distinct app, included with an Apple Music subscription, gives these classical music lovers the editorial and catalog content they’ve been missing.

Only a brand-new app — with specialized features and a beautiful interface designed for the genre — could remove the complexity and make classical music easily searchable, browsable, and accessible for beginners and experts alike.

The accompanying guide supplies responses to additional common inquiries concerning the newly launched app. A significant portion of the details pertains to the integration of the Apple Music Classical app with the typical Apple Music app.

Furthermore, Apple has posted a video synopsis of the app on YouTube. Apple Music Classical presents a collection of more than five million classical music tracks and is accessible free of charge for iOS 15.4 and later with a standard Apple Music subscription.

Based on the Primephonic service that Apple purchased in 2021, the app is currently exclusively available on iPhone, although an Android edition will arrive soon.