WNYC App Reviews

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Easy access to programs

Ive come to love WNYC and their intelligent approach to radio journalism and witty entertainment. Its a way a Cdn listener can get an Indepth comprehension of the American psyche.

I HATE this app

Of all the apps I’ve used, this is easily the buggiest of them all. I can’t believe that a fine organization such as WNYC would allow such a poorly designed and buggy piece of software to represent such a fine station. Get rid of this and start over. I might suggest you hire whomever did the "This American Life” app as it seems to work flawlessly, and allows access to way more content as well. (Hardware/software: iPhone 4S, ios7)

Unstable on IOS 6

The app looks impressive with tons of features, However, it crashes often. I restore mu IPod - erased and re-installed the app with same results. I have an older iPod Touch with IOS 6 - this might be the cause

Good

Good app, I like to listen your radio at night .

worst. app. ever.

so slow to load, SO SLOW to use, and absolutely buggy with blank menus and blank pages, and completely unresponsive. love your radio programs but this app is pure garbage.

Great Interface, Otherwise Buggy, Unresponsive

Looks great and the content but s superb. Overall a great app if youre lucky enough to not catch it acting up so its a shame the app often does not work properly. Some issues include the streams not starting (even on wifi), getting stuck on a page because the back button stops responding, and the app just generally being slow. The app shouldnt be so hard to use but its being held back by whatevers going on under the hood.

Frustrating

In theory, its a great app. The reality, however, proves very disappointing. Constantly cuts out. Downloaded it an hour ago and every ten minutes I have to restart the app to keep the live stream going. I expected better from this great radio station.

Crashes constantly

Others reviewers out there have said the same thing, but I wanted to add my own comments here in hopes that the content owners will see the large number of negative reviews and get the developer of this app to do something. The content available with this app is amazing. The app itself looks good, but has a lot of issues. The most irritating of these issues is that it crashes constantly, or just stops playing and you have to drag it out of your pocket every five minutes and fiddle with it to get it to play. Also, saving content for later listening is really irritating. You have to click to "show more" a hundred times if youre trying to listen to old podcasts, and when you actually listen to saved content it doesnt move it to a "listened to" section when youre done so whenever you finish a saved show it just starts right up again listening to the first show on your list (or something else random that youve already listened to) WNYC, get your developers to fix this app please!!!

Same here

I agree with everyone else. The interface is nice, but the app is extremely buggy. It doesnt work correctly when I want to save audio to listen to later, it doesnt remember my saved shows, and sometimes it wont stream the episodes I want to hear.

Crashes constantly

Unusable app, pretty shocking in this day and age and for such a great radio station.

Accessibility for blind listeners!

As a blind person, i love WNYc! Have it perpetually on in the kitchen. Very disappointed that this version has issues- namely no more labeled play button! And even when my sighted boyfriend pointed out the unnamed play "link" it would not play till i turned off voiceover. Havent had the app for a while, so not sure when it lost the play for blind people feature, but I hope it comes back soon! Thanks, Leona,

Hold a special fundraiser...

So you can get a good dev team to create a working app. I support wnyc, but this is really disappointing.

Fix this app

Constantly crashes. Very frustrating

Very buggy!

Im a wnyc member and Fan! Please wnyc fix this app, it crashes all the time, it doesnt remember where you left off listening and it doesnt let me access some of my favorite programs.

YES FINALLY!!!!

WOOHOO!

Hoping for a miracle

Happy to see this major upgrade to what has been a very poor app. So far, so good!

From OK to bad with update

Broken update. Erases app data (starred shows, unplayed/played status, saved shows). Also, pauses when app loses focus (such that one cant switch to any other app during playback, it even pauses when the lock screen button is pressed. Im quite upset about losing play data that, I presume, is not backed up "in the cloud" to WNYCs servers and is irretrievable. Unfortunately, even with the memory and patience to assign such statuses, this "major" update failed to provide any new and useful functionality, such as a way to manually change an episodes played/unplayed status. I fear this app will go the way of This American Life (app), which similarly released a "ground-up" update a couple of years back that hosed user data and introduced new bugs. And then wasnt updated further (at least not in the following year or so). If no WNYC app update comes in the following days, will try migrating to Spotify, which carries many of the same shows, but prevents these software update mishaps by backing up user data to their cloud. They also have the resources to make more complete updates on a more aggressive schedule. ...I dont like that there is basically a monopoly on good streaming services. But if Spotify is the only one that can do the job... WNYC I love you, but youre bringing me down.

Big improvement!

This app bookends my day. Keep it up, WNYC!

Much better

A world of difference! Way better than previous versions

Major regression

Streaming live is nearly useless. Its cuts out very frequently, especially compared the the previous version. I wish I hadnt updated. Very disappointing. I find now myself frustratingly turning off wnyc and just listening to something else.

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