SiriusXM: Music, Sports & News 17+

41/2,stars! An update: I really like that I can keep the episodes I want! That’s a nice and welcome change and I really appreciate it!!! There are 2 more changes I would like to see: one is being able to skip more than 5 or 6 songs. The reason for this for me is that sometimes I’m not especially interested in some songs, but still want to stay on that station or that episode. 2 is I would like to have access to previous episodes, particularly the satellite surveys. One example of this is the Summer of Love survey, done in the summer of 2022. I do like Sirius XM and I really like the improvements!! Thank you!!!! An update : apparently, some of the episodes I had saved were taken away, yet others, which were not saved weren’t taken away!! HUH?????? Come on, Sirius, you’re better than that!!
Further update: what in the world is going on with the Sirius app ????? Some of the episodes of a program I like have disappeared. I had saved almost all the weekly episodes between October 14 and current. Then, within the past week, 5 months worth of episodes just vanished. One the the most bizarre? The episodes between January and March have vanished, leaving 1 episode in December and then from April on!!!!! Huh???????? What????? I STILL don’t see how it affects Sirius in any way if we keep the episodes as long as we have Sirius. Also, I’m STILL waiting to be able to pull previous episodes from the archives…

i echo the sentiments of another user that this version is unusable. whoever you paid a bunch of money to on this redesign should be fired cause the user experience is terrible. why did it ask me to pick a bunch of artists and where did all of my favorites go?! i hate the new layout. i don’t need you to suggest things to me when i had already previously picked all the stations out that i wanted as favorites and now they aren’t showing on the home page unless i scroll down, which defeats the purpose of ease of use. they’re now saved in a library that has the worst layout. I ABSOLUTELY HATE THE VERTICAL LAYOUT OF CHANNELS, the thumbnails are tiny and now it doesn’t even tell you what is playing half the time. why did you get rid of the thumbnails which were easy to read?!? i have had to exit out of the app but it keeps going back to that same spot as when i first opened it and not advancing to and showing me whatever is live. and even when it advances to what is playing live the graphics and song titles aren’t matching; it’s continuing to show whatever you opened the app on even an hour later. also when i'm listening to news programs it won’t let me rewind 15s or 30s like it used to (i can’t remember what small increment it was) the only option now is to go back an hour! you can’t even manually move it to where you want within the program. i gave up trying to use this app yesterday and just went straight to NPR.

I have loved previous versions of this app, but the most recent one (7.0.5) makes it virtually unusable. The first time you open it, it asks you to pick a lot of artists or genres which you like. Seemingly, this would be used to present this type of material to you on your Home Screen. But it is constantly suggesting artists or channels which are completely different from what I liked. With previous versions of the app, my Home Screen showed all the channels I had marked as favorites and I could immediately select one of them. The new app makes it hard to find what you want.

One of my favorite channels was Radio Classics. Previously you could select the channel and it would show you all the programs which had aired in the last 4 or 5 hours, so you could jump to one of them. Now, it shows you a list of what is coming up in the next few hours. That does me no good if I’m looking to listen to something right now. The best you can get is a list of 4-episode blocks which have aired recently, but you have very limited information on what programs might be included in that block. If you start listening and find that a program you are interested in is the third program in the block, it is much more difficult to jump to that program.

Please bring back the functionality that actually let a user listen to his/her favorite channels or programs! I don’t need/want all your suggestions of what you think I might like.