Apple Music Classical

Apple

About this app

Get the app designed specifically for classical music. Available to Apple Music subscribers at no additional cost. Instantly find any recording in the world’s largest classical music catalogue with search built for the genre. Enjoy the highest audio quality available (up to 24-bit/192 kHz Hi-Res Lossless) and hear classical favourites like never before in spatial audio, all with zero ads.

Apple Music Classical also makes it easy for beginners to get to know the classical genre thanks to hundreds of Essentials playlists, insightful composer biographies, deep-dive guides for many key works and intuitive browsing features.

The Ultimate Classical Experience
• Get unlimited access to the world’s largest classical music catalogue (over 5 million tracks) with everything from new releases to celebrated masterpieces, plus thousands of exclusive albums.
• Search by composer, work, conductor or even catalogue number and find specific recordings instantly.
• Listen in the highest audio quality (up to 24 bit/192 kHz Hi-Res Lossless) and enjoy thousands of recordings in immersive spatial audio with Dolby Atmos.
• Know exactly who and what you are listening to thanks to complete, accurate metadata.
• Learn about each classical period with The Story of Classical audio guides.
• Dig deeper as you listen, with insightful album notes, descriptions of key works and thousands of composer biographies.
• Browse booklets for thousands of albums including in depth liner notes, translations and more.

Requirements
• Requires an Apple Music subscription (Individual, Student, Family or Apple One).
• Availability and features vary by country and region, plan or device. The list of countries where Apple Music Classical is available can be found at https://support.apple.com/HT204411.
• Apple Music Classical is available on all Android phones running Android 9 (‘Pie’) or later.
• To listen to music on Apple Music Classical, you must have an internet connection.

Ratings and reviews

The app too often fails to work. When it does work, its great, but when it doesn't, it's rather useless. I currently can browse all the songs, but when you click play, it loads indefinitely and nothing plays. No matter what song I select morning plays. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the app and still the same issue. Others have reported similar this happening in other reviews.

App appears to be broken again. It will not play music, hanging on "loading..." after I hit play. I've even tried uninstalling and reinstalling after a reboot. This has worked in the past. I have even tried starting the track in Apple Music and then clicking the "play in Classical app" button. Nope, nothing works. It's good and broken

Great information, great quality, buggy as can be - worst issue is that the app often (nearly always) loses my place when paused, restarting a track and sometimes a whole piece. It would also be nice to be able to cast, though Bluetooth serves as a workable substitute, and the lack of downloading is unfortunate. But the pause issue is bafflingly stupid for such a simple function.

What's new

This update contains stability and performance enhancements.