Music Ed Tech Talk #68 - Sponge Cousin, with Dr. David MacDonald

David returns to discuss Apple Music Classical, new updates to Farrago and forScore, and other music tech news.

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Show Notes:

• Raycast
• S-GPT
• Pizza Calculator
• Soulver
• Farrago
• forScore 14
• freesound.org
• Rehearal Automation Blog Post
• Anytune
• Apple Music Classical
• Stream Deck app
• IDAGIO

App of the Week:
Robby - DayOne
David - Airalo

Album of the Week:
Robby - Makaya McCraven - In These Times
David - Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion - Let the Soil Play

Tech Tip of the Week:
Robby - Streamdeck StageManager iOS App Workflow with Farrago during class
David - Shazam in Control Center

Where to Find Us:
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David - Website

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Apple Music Classical (Mostly) Plays the Right Chords -- TidBITS

Kirk Mcehlhearn wrote a detailed breakdown about Apple's new classical music app for TidBITS last month.

Apple Music Classical Mostly Plays the Right Chords:

Apple Music Classical is a free app for Apple Music subscribers to access this new, enhanced collection of music. Inexplicably, it is only available for the iPhone. One would expect Apple Music Classical to be available for desktop computers, especially since many people listen to classical music from a Mac, or a PC running iTunes, connected to a stereo. Since Apple Music has added a lot of high-resolution music, which requires an external DAC (digital-analog converter) to play at its full quality, it is quite difficult to play that sort of music from an iPhone. You can stream music to an AirPlay 2-compatible receiver with a DAC attached, but most people don’t have that hardware. You can, of course, stream Apple Music Classical from an iPhone to a HomePod—the second generation of which also supports Dolby Atmos, or what Apple calls spatial audio—but overall, this focus on the iPhone limits playback options considerably. Keep reading here...: