The now-defunct classical music streaming service was acquired by Apple, and taken offline in the summer of 2021.
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(Pocket-lint) – Primephonic is a now-defunct music streaming service that exclusively offered classical music. It was acquired by Apple, and taken offline in the summer of 2021.
A post on the Primephonic website states that „the Primephonic service has been taken offline. We are working on an amazing new classical music experience from Apple for next year.“
As of writing, this Apple classical music service has yet to materialise, though there has been evidence that it’s in the works.
If you’re interested in the services that Primephonic used to offer, you can find those below: What did Primephonic offer?
Primephonic was a complete classical music streaming app. Primephonic’s best feature was its search because it enabled users to search classical music by period, genre, style or personnel, such as who conducted the performance. Essentially, users could sift through vast quantities of classical music by looking at other factors (up to eight variables) rather than just the artist, song, or album search available on other streaming apps.
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Founded in 2017, the service boasted over three and a half million tracks from 170,000 artists across 230,000 albums and 2,400 labels. A manual curation team worked to make sure everything was categorised correctly. Primephonic claimed to have the largest classical database in the world, at 230,000 albums.
„Classical music is complicated…it has a lot of data associated with it“ says head of curation Guy Jones.
