myTuner Radio Pro ٤+

This app is great, and I like the fact that the pro version is not a subscription. You pay once and that’s it. The app has a nice layout and it is easy to use. It has a couple of bugs though: for instance, if you are in an area with bad reception, when signal gets better it doesn’t seem to do a good job recovering the audio stream. It hangs perpetually and often times you have to stop and restart the stream to continue listening. Another bug, and perhaps the most annoying one for me, is that when you switch to or from Bluetooth devices while streaming, the audio rate will change speed, as if you suddenly speed up or slow down an analog tape player. After you switch Bluetooth devices mid-stream, you hear a pitch change in the audio. It’s probably about a 5% change in speed. Sometimes it switches to a higher speed playback, sometimes a lower speed playback. It remains playing at the incorrect speed until you stop the stream and then resume. It does that regardless of station and it happens on all Bluetooth devices I use: wireless speakers, headsets, my car, my AirPods, etc. No other player I have has this bug. This has been the case for a long time and it has not been fixed, so I wanted to report it here.

I love this app and have it on my two iPad Pros (2017 & 2020), my iPad 5th gen 9.7”, and my Samsung Galaxy Tab 12.2. All the paid version to get rid of the annoying ads that take over your full screen. I’d like to know why all of a sudden the last two days, Sept. 8th & 9th, when within 2-3 feet of my wireless router it cuts in and out, on any device, YET my connection to other apps, or connecting directly to the German radio station I mostly listen to, “Radio Paloma - Berlin”, DIRECTLY, does NOT have ANY issues. BUT trying to listen to that station with the app, keeps cutting out. Don’t know if it is a “bug”, if so, I hope the developer(s) read this and FIX IT!!! It is so annoying, to constantly “refresh” to the station. Today in the car, instead of using the app, which I usually do, I connected to Radio Paloma DIRECTLY to avoid hearing the dropping while driving. Now back at home, same thing, drops out, but NOT when connected directly to Radio Paloma.

USUALLY a GREAT APP, and the few bucks to get rid of the full screen ads is well worth it!!!

I want to let my dollars help a developer and app that didn’t give in to the irrational purge of Alex Jones and conservative opinions in general. I want to help and thank you for allowing all opinions and voices heard, no matter how “offensive” it may be to those who do not agree.

That all being said, I do love that it runs on Apple Watch, Apple TV and CarPlay. Syncs all your favorites across the devices, and the Pro version with no ads, EQ and Car mode settings is great.

The only bug I see that needs fixed- when playing a stream from the iPhone and then turning on a Bluetooth speaker- the tempo changes and speeds up. You have to pause it and then play it again to have it be back to normal tempo.