Amp Live Radio: Music & Talk 12+

Amp is Great!! The idea you guys bought to life to bring people together in a different way is amazing. The idea is great but the app on the other hand can be a lot better. Connection as well as the interface are your biggest issues right now. Connection keeps lagging or drops a lot when your out and about. The interface keeps freezing & shutting down makes it frustrating listening to a show straight through. The profiles need to be beefed up to put more information about ourselves or maybe a timeline to keep our audience entertained while we are offline. Airplay capabilities down the line would be awesome so we can jam on our tv’s as well. There’s a lot that can be done down the line & hope we get really cool updates down the line. I’m here for it and can’t wait to see what you guys bring to the table. Go AMP TEAM!!

I am loving the idea of sharing my music tastes with similarly minded people and this app has a sensible idea to it with queuing songs and it has an impressive library to choose from! Engagement makes the wait worth it! But the wait is very hit and miss. With 20 minutes in your first show to play 3 solo songs while you wait, thats ample time to get people interested but it is hard to keep an audience as many may put it on and leave rather than engaging and asking for song recommendations to feel invested in the station.

I am having a hardware issue where my bluetooth devices don’t play music for me to hear with my people while i work on other projects like drawing or reading. It is defaulting to my phones audio very soon after starting a song and it makes it hard to get into the music myself when its just my phone speakers, and as though it is trying to play through a muffled speaker phone setting on my phone! No way that i can see to change it and may be a deal breaker if i cant rock out with my audience.

I love this app. I’ve had lots of fun doing some shows and creating playlists. But I don’t like how you can only play music when nobody is listening within the first 20 minutes. People are more likely to filter in and out than listen from start to finish. If I have waiting music playing when someone comes along, they’re gonna move on to the next show. It would also be useful if Amp could provide more advanced metrics for creators. Stats like total listeners and average time listening would be great for creators to improve their shows if they wish.

I’ve also noticed sometimes that my listener count will suddenly drop to zero even though people are still listening. Hopefully Amp can fix this bug soon.

The bottom line is that smaller creators need to be given some amount of priority. It’s great that some celebrities have come on board the platform, but the appeal of this app should always be that someone out there I don’t know has awesome music taste and is willing to share it with the world.