Apple Music Classical is now available from the App Store
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple Music Classical, Apple's long-in-the-works app for listening to classical music with an Apple Music subscription, is now available to download from the App Store.
Apple Music Classical was born from Primephonic, which Apple acquired in 2021 with the intent of launching a classical music-focused app in 2022. The promise of Apple Music Classical is that it will be better at handling the complex metadata often associated with classical recordings, and the app will also have things like curated playlists and composer biographies to help people get more acquainted with the genre.
Apple says the app's catalog houses more than 5 million tracks and that you can listen to music at up to 192 kHz/24 bit hi-res lossless. However, there are a...