Apple Music Classical
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Apple Music Classical
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| Operator | Apple |
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| Launched | March 28, 2023 (from the 2021 Primephonic acquisition) |
| Price | Included with Apple Music |
| Catalog | 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.
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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.