More stable. A little slow to load.

I used the old app almost daily. One push, I was listening to my local NPR station. Now, I select the app and I’m besieged by thumbnails that lead to nothing I want to use. Please understand that I have the NPR app. I have Sirius. I have podcasts. I have Applenews, which streams news stories, also. So, all these things are competing for my ears and my $. I use the WLRN app bc I want mostly to *listen* to streaming news/stories that are local. Why make me sort thru all those thumbnails, esp a whole thumbnail for 15 sec (?) sound clip? It seems like a waste of space on my phone screen. WLRN offers one thing none of the competitors do: local news by many people I know. Clean up the interface and make it one-click. Or, make it selectable between your classical/News. I appreciate the drive to innovate. So, I don’t want to be nasty. I just think the app update has room for improvement.

I have the same problem the person who titled his review Nagware has. Also, there are pockets of places in my neighborhood where it cuts out, but when I return to that same area, it’s fine. This happens 100% of the time. currently, I’m listening to the app to see if the buzz in my radio is from the station or my radio and sure enough, I’m hearing the buzz in my app. So you guys have a lot to work on. I was all set to go out and buy a new radio. The one I have now is 47 years old and has been perfect until now.

Every time it loads, the feed pauses or switch signals, the initial advertisement plays, again and again, and again, interrupting whatever I’m listening to. Between annoying and irritating. Despite this, it is my preferred method to listen to WLRN in the go. The previous version used to double stream on occasion. New version appears to have corrected that, thankfully. Great programming keeps me listening.