SiriusXM: Music, Sports & News 17+

Latest version is a mess!

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.

this updated version is complete crap

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.

Latest app version is horrible

The latest app version is horrible. The channels used to be very easy to find, now it’s next to impossible to find the full channel lineup. Channels are grouped into genres or moods. Some channels you would expect to be in a genre are not, and they are not in a mood so it is hard to find them. Some channels are listed in several places, make up your mind where they belong! I can’t play the app through my TV anymore without it stopping when playing streaming channels sometimes after 1-2 songs or sometimes after 30 minutes. The help area on the XM site says it will cut off streaming every hour to make sure you are listening. How crazy is that? Maybe I leave it on for my dog to listen to during the day while I am away. Also annoying and didn’t happen before is the app will cut off randomly and give the message that the app is streaming on another device do I want to continue on this device. That is not correct, I am not streaming on any other device. So if I say yes, continue on this device, in a few more minutes, it will cut off again and give that same message about streaming on another device. Please bring back the old version or more of the functionality of the prior version. It is difficult to see the channel icons because they are so small in the list in the library or a channel lineup list. This is making me question the continued use of XM. It is becoming more aggravating than it’s worth.

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