> 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.
Off topic but the careful choice of rationale here kinda reminds me of the choices the Rust language designers made; addressing actual issues that have caused inconvenience. I love it. Something about an honest desire and attempt to fix a demonstrated issue; not sure if I'm articulating it properly.
This would be the opposite of what is often referred to as "user hostility", but which I think is more aptly described as "user indifference": stuff like a programming language silently allowing you to crash while accessing null pointers, or every single music app UI showing stuff like
1. Tchaikovsky Symphonies and Concertos - London Symphony Orchestra - I. S ...
2. Tchaikovsky Symphonies and Concertos - London Symphony Orchestra - II. S ...
3. Tchaikovsky Symphonies and Concertos - London Symphony Orchestra - III. S ...
4. Tchaikovsky Symphonies and Concertos - London Symphony Orchestra - I. C ...
Classical music isn't the only category that is not well served by a library of audio files though. Many types of folkloric music and rap has similar problems. Actually, pushing many audio files to clients with just album context only serves the pop music well, perhaps.
On the other hand, limiting it to classical music hits that "do one thing well" spot, and would be hopefully a good testing ground for more such individualized apps.
Even in pop it could be a lot better. Like, for instance it would be neat when listening to a song to have easy access to cover versions by other bands.
>Classical music often involves multiple musicians recording works that have been recorded many times before and are referred to by different names.
All of those things are true in the Polka world.
And of course all of those things could be a mode in a "classical genre section" of the standard music app (and similar for polka, latin, folk, and other cases where the same things hold).
Though my comment wasn't about the implementation, but about the niche-ness of it. Meanwhile major features awaited by huge customer bases still play the sound of crickets...
Polka 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 The Buffalo Touch’s Pani Mloda Polka to the popular byname of Bridal Dance, or in multiple languages, such as Säkkijärven polkka in Finnish. Such complexities mean that polka fans have been ill-served by streaming platforms. Until now. A distinct app, included with an Apple Music subscription, gives these polka 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 polka music easily searchable, browsable, and accessible for beginners and experts alike."
