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Re:Apple buys 50-year-old record label to grow Apple Music C... by j7ake on Thursday September 07, 2023 @07:05AM (#37417214)
Who are the competitors right now for good classical music app?

I feel apple is the only player in the game.

They also know what matters is the content, and they’re obviously growing that content.

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Re:Apple buys 50-year-old record label to grow Apple Music C... by mastercheif on Thursday September 07, 2023 @07:23AM (#37417372)
https://roon.app/en/

Roon is the only other music player that understands the difference between compositions and performances like Apple Music Classical does.

What’s cool about Roon is that it applies this approach to all Music, not just classical.

Roon also seamlessly merges any locally stored music you have with your libraries from Tidal, Qobuz, or KKBox, which allows you to manage all of your music from one place.

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Re:Apple buys 50-year-old record label to grow Apple Music C... by esperent on Thursday September 07, 2023 @07:49AM (#37417574)
> difference between compositions and performances

What is the difference and why's it important for an app to have these categories?

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Re:Apple buys 50-year-old record label to grow Apple Music C... by jdsnape on Thursday September 07, 2023 @08:14AM (#37417816)
To take a specific example, Pergolesi wrote a setting of the hymn ‘Stabat Mater’ (which is fantastic). So that’s the composition. But it can sound very different depending on how it is performed, my favourite performance is by Emma Kirkby. But it’s hit and miss about how that gets categorised - and it’s particularly important if the piece forms part of a set of works. I don’t want to search Emma Kirkby to find a piece by pergolesi, and I want to be able to group by composer rather than performer even through the performer is listed as the artist. Or, I might want to find other pieces performed by her from other composers.
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Re:Apple buys 50-year-old record label to grow Apple Music C... by esperent on Friday September 08, 2023 @10:40PM (#37441692)
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Re:Apple buys 50-year-old record label to grow Apple Music C... by hombre_fatal on Thursday September 07, 2023 @08:35AM (#37418006)
Imagine a music app with first class support for tracking and listing remixes and covers of a given song, except here it’s classical music.
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Re:Apple buys 50-year-old record label to grow Apple Music C... by matwood on Thursday September 07, 2023 @08:13AM (#37417794)
Take a piece by Mozart for example. That piece has been performed and recorded many times over the years. A classical music listener wants to be able to browse by the composition (all performances of the composition), but also by the performer (all compositions performed by player/group).
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Re:Apple buys 50-year-old record label to grow Apple Music C... by OfSanguineFire on Thursday September 07, 2023 @08:14AM (#37417811)
One classical music composition can have multiple performances, potentially hundreds. So if you are in the mood to listen to, as a random example, Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 but are interested in how different musicians have approached that work, it is helpful to have an app that allows you to look up that composition, and see all the recordings of it with their respective orchestras and conductors shown.
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Re:Apple buys 50-year-old record label to grow Apple Music C... by themadturk on Thursday September 07, 2023 @03:57PM (#37424734)
Conductors tend to follow a certain interpretation of a composer's music. If I like the way Leonard Bernstein or Michael Tilson Thomas conducts a Mahler symphony, I'm likely to want all of Mahler's symphonies as recorded by one or the other (or, heaven help me, both), not one conducted by Leonard Slatkin (tho he's really good as well) and another one from Fritz Reiner.

Though I'd make an exception if I could find the Mahler's 2nd conducted by Eugene Ormandy I grew up with in the late 1960s, though...

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Re:Apple buys 50-year-old record label to grow Apple Music C... by cschmidt on Thursday September 07, 2023 @09:18AM (#37418489)
> Roon is the only other music player that understands the difference between compositions and performances like Apple Music Classical does.

Idagio mentioned in this thread does this as well. You can choose your performance by conductor / soloist / ensemble etc.

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Re:Apple buys 50-year-old record label to grow Apple Music C... by speed_spread on Thursday September 07, 2023 @07:32AM (#37417441)
Torrent + Plexamp.
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Re:Apple buys 50-year-old record label to grow Apple Music C... by conception on Thursday September 07, 2023 @07:47AM (#37417552)
Idagio is amazing and I’m really bummed for them that Apple is moving directly into this space.

https://www.idagio.com/

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Re:Apple buys 50-year-old record label to grow Apple Music C... by J_Shelby_J on Thursday September 07, 2023 @09:02AM (#37418295)
Loved idagio when I was subscribed.
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Re:Apple buys 50-year-old record label to grow Apple Music C... by cpif on Thursday September 07, 2023 @08:50AM (#37418163)
There was a recently a review of Apple Classical in The New Yorker [1], which compares it to a few other services, some also mentioned in this thread. Apparently, many fare better on grouping compositions as an serious listener would appreciate.

I'm not sure if the other options own their own label(s), though. It will be interesting to see how this acquisition shapes the content available on the app.

[1]: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/apple-aga...

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