Apple Music Classical

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! class="ios-lab" | Operator
| class="ios-val" | [[Apple]]
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! class="ios-lab" | Launched
| class="ios-val" | March 28, 2023 (from the 2021 Primephonic acquisition)
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! class="ios-lab" | Price
| class="ios-val" | Included with [[Apple Music]]
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! class="ios-lab" | Catalog
| class="ios-val" | 5+ million classical tracks, metadata built for the genre
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Apple Music Classical is the classical-music answer to a streaming problem the pop-built services never solved: finding a specific recording of a specific work. Built from the acquired Primephonic, it searches by composer, work, opus, conductor, orchestra, and soloist — the metadata classical listening actually runs on — across millions of tracks in lossless and Spatial Audio.

= Position =

The separate app is the point: classical browsing needs different bones than album-and-artist streaming, and Apple chose a dedicated home over a buried tab. Free with [[Apple Music]] and later extended beyond the iPhone, it made Apple the major service that took the genre seriously — a small market served disproportionately well, in the audiophile spirit of the lossless catalog.

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