"Apple Music Launches Classical Spinoff for Android and iPhone Users"

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Source: GQ
"Apple Music Launches Classical Spinoff for Android and iPhone Users"
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TL;DR

Apple Music has released a new app dedicated exclusively to streaming classical music, based on a classical-only streaming service called Primephonic, which Apple purchased in 2021. The app has been remade with innovative and high-fidelity audio encoding, playlists from some of the biggest names in classical, and a thoughtful nine-part introductory podcast. The success of the app hinges on solving a boring, technical problem: metadata. A usable classical streaming service needs to figure out how to display all of that information, and make it searchable.

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