Difficulties Streaming Classical Music

[mark]

Interesting article on the difficulties of streaming classical music.  Basically, "the metadata for classical music — including the name of a piece of music, the individual movements or sections of that piece, the composer, the various performers involved, and so forth — is inherently more complicated than it is for pop music."  And, "classical works often span several tracks, not self-contained within one "song." By contrast, most streaming sites assume you want to listen to one track and then move on to something new."

A clearly related issue is the striking statistic that, as described in this article, classical currently represents only about 1% of all streamed music!


www.npr.org/2023/04/24/1171092442/apple-music-classical-streaming-app 

[Chris]

The new Apple Classical streaming service is trying to address these issues.