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Please if someone from Apple is listening: Please pay some attention to Indian music as well. I mostly only listen to Tamil songs and when Apple came out with i

Please if someone from Apple is listening: Please pay some attention to Indian music as well. I mostly only listen to Tamil songs and when Apple came out with iTunes Match or something where they analyze your library and match it to what they have in cloud, they just incorrectly matched songs with the Telugu version and ones from other languages and totally messed up my collection. And, this day and age, why should all Indian music be clubbed under "Foreign" genre by default?

calf 4y ago
Does the Apple Classical app include non-Western traditional music? It's interesting, what even is classical music? I bet there's music that crosses boundaries, like jazz-classical or pop-classical. Are those subgenres on the app?
_venkatasg 4y ago
I've noticed that soundtracks show up in this Classical music app, so some (not all) of my Tamil songs (which are songs from movies because that's how most pop/commercial music in India is released) are listed there now.
thewebcount 4y ago
You can file your feedback for Apple Music here: https://www.apple.com/feedback/apple-music.html https://www.apple.com/feedback/apple-music.html That's the only way your voice will get heard.
pradn 4y ago
Even JioSaavn, which is focused on Indian popular film music, doesn't do anything special. It's a bit more similar to classical music than American-style pop in terms of organization. Music directors are responsible for the entire album of a film, with singers being brought on for a track or two. So one might want to slice by music director, just like looking at all Bach pieces. It's not quite the case with pop producers, who are usually behind-the-scenes. Fans of Indian popular music often follow their favorite music directors, even if they have little interest in the films the music is a part of. However, even then, this slight difference is well papered-over by just including the music director in the list of artists who made a song. Indian classical music, however, has a wholly separate and more intricate form of organization. You'd at least need raga and the properties of the raga (like the dominant rasa & associated time of day), along with the various singers and instrumentalists in the ensemble and their instruments. It would be great to search for "morning"-raga-based Carnatic vocal concerts with the lead singer being Sudha Ragunathan.
8ytecoder 4y ago
It’s a licensing issue. There are a whole bunch of albums missing in one language but available in another. All the latest ones are decently organised. Then there’s the nightmare where a single song is uploaded with its own album title (From XYZ…). It’s unusable. I think it’s there to tick a box.
joemi 4y ago
This touches on one of my least favorite things about Apple Music: They don't have different versions of a lot of stuff. I've seen many cases where a particular track they have with an album is actually a single version (or vice versa), and somewhat like your Tamil/Telugu issue, single and album versions can be quite different.

calf 4y ago

Does the Apple Classical app include non-Western traditional music? It's interesting, what even is classical music? I bet there's music that crosses boundaries, like jazz-classical or pop-classical. Are those subgenres on the app?

_venkatasg 4y ago

I've noticed that soundtracks show up in this Classical music app, so some (not all) of my Tamil songs (which are songs from movies because that's how most pop/commercial music in India is released) are listed there now.

thewebcount 4y ago

You can file your feedback for Apple Music here: https://www.apple.com/feedback/apple-music.html https://www.apple.com/feedback/apple-music.html That's the only way your voice will get heard.

pradn 4y ago

Even JioSaavn, which is focused on Indian popular film music, doesn't do anything special. It's a bit more similar to classical music than American-style pop in terms of organization. Music directors are responsible for the entire album of a film, with singers being brought on for a track or two. So one might want to slice by music director, just like looking at all Bach pieces. It's not quite the case with pop producers, who are usually behind-the-scenes. Fans of Indian popular music often follow their favorite music directors, even if they have little interest in the films the music is a part of. However, even then, this slight difference is well papered-over by just including the music director in the list of artists who made a song. Indian classical music, however, has a wholly separate and more intricate form of organization. You'd at least need raga and the properties of the raga (like the dominant rasa & associated time of day), along with the various singers and instrumentalists in the ensemble and their instruments. It would be great to search for "morning"-raga-based Carnatic vocal concerts with the lead singer being Sudha Ragunathan.

8ytecoder 4y ago

It’s a licensing issue. There are a whole bunch of albums missing in one language but available in another. All the latest ones are decently organised. Then there’s the nightmare where a single song is uploaded with its own album title (From XYZ…). It’s unusable. I think it’s there to tick a box.

joemi 4y ago

This touches on one of my least favorite things about Apple Music: They don't have different versions of a lot of stuff. I've seen many cases where a particular track they have with an album is actually a single version (or vice versa), and somewhat like your Tamil/Telugu issue, single and album versions can be quite different.