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  • Apple announced a new iPhone-only app exclusively for classical music

    From NewsKrawler@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 10 00:13:15 2023
    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/apple-will-launch-a-new-app-exclusively-for-classical-music-later-this-month/
    Apple will launch a new app exclusively for classical music

    Apple is launching a version of Apple Music specifically for classical
    music later this month, the company announced today.

    The Apple Music Classical app, currently available for preorder in the App Store, will be separate from the main Apple Music app. But access to the service will be included with a $17-per-month Apple One subscription or
    most Apple Music subscriptions (excluding the basic $5-per-month Apple
    Music Voice tier).

    In August 2021, Apple acquired a classical music service called
    Primephonic.

    Perhaps most importantly for a streaming music service, Primephonic used a royalty model where payouts were based on the amount of time that songs
    were played rather than the number of times a song was listened to.

    Using a per-play model, someone who listens to a 15-minute movement of a Beethoven symphony would generate as much revenue for the artists as
    someone who listened to a 90-second pop song.

    Apple hasn't specified how it plans to pay artists, but its press release announcing the Primephonic acquisition indicated that the service's
    detailed metadata and "the best features of Primephonic" would be folded
    into Apple Music Classical when it launched.

    The Apple Music Classical app is iPhone-only for now, though an Android
    version is apparently coming "soon." There's no word on what Apple plans
    for the iPad, macOS, or Windows; Windows only got its first version of the Apple Music app in a preview earlier this year.

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  • From Paul Goodman@21:1/5 to NewsKrawler on Thu Mar 9 22:31:26 2023
    On Mar 9, 2023, NewsKrawler wrote
    (in article <tudsmq$14ulc$1@paganini.bofh.team>):

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/apple-will-launch-a-new-app-exclusivel
    y-for-classical-music-later-this-month/
    Apple will launch a new app exclusively for classical music

    [SNIP]

    The Apple Music Classical app is iPhone-only for now, though an Android version is apparently coming "soon." There's no word on what Apple plans
    for the iPad, macOS, or Windows; Windows only got its first version of the Apple Music app in a preview earlier this year.

    It is showing up as a preorder option in the app store on my iPad too.

    --
    Paul Goodman

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  • From sms@21:1/5 to Paul Goodman on Fri Mar 10 08:08:49 2023
    On 3/9/2023 7:31 PM, Paul Goodman wrote:
    On Mar 9, 2023, NewsKrawler wrote
    (in article <tudsmq$14ulc$1@paganini.bofh.team>):

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/apple-will-launch-a-new-app-exclusivel
    y-for-classical-music-later-this-month/
    Apple will launch a new app exclusively for classical music

    [SNIP]

    The Apple Music Classical app is iPhone-only for now, though an Android
    version is apparently coming "soon." There's no word on what Apple plans
    for the iPad, macOS, or Windows; Windows only got its first version of the >> Apple Music app in a preview earlier this year.

    It is showing up as a preorder option in the app store on my iPad too.

    I would subscribe to Apple Premier family if they would allow News+ to
    be be accessed on Windows computers. Before Apple bought Texture and
    turned it into Apple News+ you could access it on Windows and Android
    devices. After all, they sell Apple Music for Android already, and Apple
    TV+ can be accessed without an AppleTV device.

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  • From sms@21:1/5 to Ken Hart on Fri Mar 10 17:59:10 2023
    On 3/10/2023 1:42 PM, Ken Hart wrote:

    <snip>

    The correct answer is using News+ without Apple tracking what you do with
    it is "not needed & nobody wants it."

    LOL. You sound like one of our favorite trolls now!

    The issue for me is that for reading news I like to do it on a big
    monitor or a 15.6" laptop screen, not on a 6" phone or even on a 10" tablet.

    I don't know why Apple dropped support for Windows and Android when they acquired Texture. After all this is a paid service and you'd think, like
    Apple Music and Apple TV, they'd want to sell it to as many people as
    possible.

    I do have one Mac now, but it's not my main machine, it's only being
    used for AirMessage.

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  • From nospam@21:1/5 to scharf.steven@geemail.com on Sat Mar 11 07:17:55 2023
    In article <tugn9d$271q0$1@dont-email.me>, sms
    <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:

    I don't know why Apple dropped support for Windows and Android when they acquired Texture.

    it's rather obvious.

    After all this is a paid service and you'd think, like
    Apple Music and Apple TV, they'd want to sell it to as many people as possible.

    or maybe they see it as a competitive advantage.

    I do have one Mac now, but it's not my main machine, it's only being
    used for AirMessage.

    what a waste.

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