![]() ![]() We are a group of people engaged in collecting as much digital music as possible. Which is a shame, because CD Text has the capability of representing most of what would be useful for a classical disc, if only publishers would use it.Home of the compulsive music collectors who are looking to expand, archive or organize their music library. There is a concept of CD Text, where album/artist/title information is recorded in the disc’s subcodes, but it is very rare to find a commercially-pressed disc that uses it, and I know that Apple’s software (iTunes and Music) do not use it when constructing metadata. And so you sometimes run across multiple albums that identify the same, even if all the data is valid. Systems like Gracenote use the disc’s table of contents (number of tracks, start/stop times for each, etc.) as they keep for looking up metadata. There is nothing resembling a global serial number or other way of identifying the disc. So one album may produce several different possible sets of metadata, and some may be flat-out wrong.Īnother problem is inherent to the CD audio format. Remember ripping very expensive Sony CDs of MTT’s recordings of Mahler Symphonies with the SF Symphony orchestra that somehow acquired obviously VERY different metadata organizational schemes even within the same work, thanks to Gracenote!Īs you point out, it is crowdsourced. I remain VERY excited about March 28, even though, just 2 days shy of my 76th birthday, I now find myself content to nap in the afternoon listening to the same twin harps adding to the magic of the Adagietto in Mahler’s 5th via the tiny drivers in my BT hearing aids even though, were I a member of the “music sound quality police” 30 years ago, I would have arrested anyone attempting to “perform” that CD via anything smaller than room-filing Klipsch behemoths. But I remember ripping very expensive Sony CDs of MTT’s recordings of Mahler Symphonies with the SF Symphony orchestra that somehow acquired obviously VERY different metadata organizational schemes even within the same work, thanks to Gracenote!Īnd, I just realized that I glossed over the very first clause of what I just quoted! I’ll wager that many of us no longer have ACCESS to a slot we can push a CD into, and since Apple Music Classical will start out iOS-only, I guess we won’t need to worry about contaminating our individual Apple Music Classical databases with that self-polluting database ![]() Of course, that was the era when many of us acquired our “Beatles” collections from Napster, so things were pretty primitive. I think that the last time I looked at Gracenote was more than 2 decades ago, and back then it suffered fatally from its crowdsourcing method of data collection. If you have a CD inserted, Apple will use Gracenote to try and identify the disc, applying whatever metadata is in the Gracenote database, but that’s about it. We look forward to hearing how well Apple Music Classical manages the highly specific metadata preferred by classical music aficionados. It has been 19 months since Apple purchased Primephonic and promised a dedicated classical music app in 2022, but better late than never (see “ Apple Buys Classical Music Service Primephonic,” 31 August 2021). Like Primephonic, it will offer thorough and accurate metadata - a challenge for services that cram all music genres into one destination - and you’ll be able to search “by composer, work, conductor, or even catalog number, and find specific recordings instantly.” In addition, the app will only support iOS devices running iOS 15.4 or newer at launch.Īpple Music Classical will stream at up to 192 kHz/24-bit hi-res lossless, and Apple says it will include “thousands” of spatial audio recordings. The release date will be later this month, on March 28. However, while the app is being announced today, it’s only available for pre-order on the App Store for now. Based on its 2021 acquisition of Amsterdam-based streamer Primephonic, the new Apple Music Classical app will offer Apple Music subscribers access to over 5 million classical music tracks, including new releases in high-quality audio, as well as hundreds of curated playlists, thousands of exclusive albums, and other features like composer bios and deep dives on key works, Apple says. #1667: OS Rapid Security Responses, 1Password and 2FA, using Siri to request musicĪpple Music Classical to Debut This MonthĪpple is launching a new music streaming service focused on classical music.#1668: Updated Rapid Security Responses, OS public betas, screen saver bug fixed, “Red Team Blues” book review.#1669: OS security updates, ambiguity of emoji, small business payments with Melio, Twitter now X.#1670: Arc Web browser hits 1.0 release, “Do You Use It?” polls about Apple features.#1671: Apple Q3 2023 earnings, new Beats headphones and earbuds, Stage Manager adoption rate, do you use Spotlight?. ![]()
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