Apple Music offers a great UI and user experience in many ways but one genre it’s not designed well for is classical. Now a new, free web app has launched that’s tailor-made just for listening to classical music on Apple Music called Concertino.
As our own Ben Lovejoy previously pointed out, classical music and other less mainstream recordings suffer on Apple Music.
Other issues with listening to classical music on Apple Music include “nonsensical playlists” and the service inserting breaks in-between movements that shouldn’t be there, and a system based on artists, albums, and tracks. In contrast, classical music is built on composers, works, performers, and movements.
“Just think of Verdi’s “La Traviata”. This opera has an own Wikipedia entry which lists 29 different recordings of the piece and this is just a partial discography. The major distinction of classical pieces lies in categories that are not provided by Apple Music or that are ordinarily summarized in the artist section: conductor, orchestra, soloist/ cast, opera house and year.”
Concertino is here to solve these pain points for Apple music customers. Here’s how the developer describes the new web app:
The web app is free to use and the developer is also working on an iOS app. Check out Concertino here.
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