MLB 4+

New: most of my complaints below are much better 2 months into the season. Ads are back to normal length. Still, I do sometimes get kicked out of an audio archive game when I pause the broadcast, which makes it hard to find my place in listening after I re-start. But I’m enjoying listening again!

Old: I’ve been a long time MLB audio subscriber, and use the app for MLB audio archive (my main way of keeping up with baseball) during the last couple of seasons has been great. Normal ad transitions, pretty easy to navigate to different times when I have to pause/leave and then return to an archived game. This season, however, MLB archived audio consistently cuts away from the announcers between innings/changes into generic repeating ads that last 4 to 5 1/2 minutes, which is longer than ad break if I were listening in real time. The average length of game is 2h 41m but the longer ads in the archived MLB audio extend the archived game time to an average that’s way longer than true game time. I don’t have hard numbers for an average, but I’d guess it’s about 3h 45m to start 2024. I pay for the app! **MLB shouldn’t add ads to an archived broadcast that extend game time even a minute for paying subscribers!!!** Shortening the game was a huge achievement by MLB last season. I’ll now go back to the archived game from yesterday that ran 2h 50m IRL, but is showing 3h 44m on my app. Ugh. Come on, MLB. Don’t artificially inject time back into the game.

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I really like this app so far! I’m just a little frustrated that I can’t see the my team play live right now because I’m watching a movie, but it’s great to have the pitch-by-pitch updates. However it’s my first time using this app and I was really hoping to see live baseball. But I can’t wait to use the app to help track the teams and players I enjoy following! I understand that the season is winding down with the playoffs imminent and that probably affects the watchability of the Red Sox game. I was just really hoping to have it on in the background here. I would love to give this five stars but would have a hard time doing it with this speed-bump I’ve come across. Nothing against anyone! I respect the process and I truly appreciate the fact that the app is free. Thank you folks for all that you do. But unfortunately there’s a slight blemish for me. If I could rate it in hundredths, it would be more along the lines of 4.89. Not just a hard four. Thank you for this incredible app, I truly appreciate it! Hopefully someone takes the time to read this, I truly meant what I said here.

Sincerely,

Chris Patch

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