KEXP Reviews – Page 5

Favorites

Jey Parks

I'm a big fan of this app and so grateful I can stream KEXP on the go. I've noticed a decent "bug" in the app regarding favorites, since updating two updates ago. I favor a song I hear, but when returning to favorite tab to look up the song I notice it's not there. Yet when the song is played again, it shows I have favorited said song. Besides streaming KEXP on the go, being able to collect/catalog the songs I love and want to remember is a big reason I use this app. Could you peeps take a look into this? If you need any screenshots or my info with the problem I am having, email me at: jeybirdsmusic at gmail dot com. Cheers!

Getting better

Nathan—

Not quite 4 star app material, but the current version is such an improvement that I’m feeling star generous. Streaming archive now works pretty well—you can actually select the start time—although audio quality is pretty woeful. Interface still isn’t very intuitive, but maybe I’ll get used to it since the app actually stays open. So better, and less buggy than the website. Thanks devs.

Soft serve not working!

Rev_Otto

The soft serve update keeps crashing my phone every time I play Purple Rain. Please address in the next update! (PS: I’m putting in a vote here for chocolate as a flavor option...maybe even open the door for swirl?)

Needs usability improvements

rolloa

I’m lucky to live in Seattle so I listen on the radio. I use the app to track songs I like, so the Favorites feature is key for me. And I really don’t like the one created for this app. First, when I click the heart to favorite a song, the next song shows a heart automatically, but it’s not really favorited - just looks like it. So I have to unclick the heart that the app put there then click the heart again to actually favorite it. That has to be a bug, right? Second, the favorites list is sorted alphabetically by song name and I find that useless. I favorite songs when I’m driving to look them up later. For me, ordering them by date favorited is the only way I can figure out what I added earlier today vs two weeks ago. The whole point of the list is so I don’t have to remember song names when I hear them, but that’s how the app sorts them. Think of a person’s favorites list as a condensed, personalized version of the playlist. If that makes sense to you, then keeping them in the order played should too. Or at least give us the option to choose to order them in the way we want. Third, the way to remove a song from your list is to click on the filled-in heart. But the app has a delay - you click and it doesn’t respond immediately (as we’ve been trained to expect). So inevitably I click it again. But then I remember that there’s a delay and I see that now I’ve deleted the song I intended to delete, plus the one after it, defeating (for that song, whatever it was) my whole reason for using the app. This has happened multiple times. This app is better than nothing, but it seems like too much effort went into look and feel (don’t care about that) and not enough into usability.

Trash functionality

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The live stream is The only feature that works. Cannot stream archives and the big that allows you to control volume via AirPlay was finally fixed. Great example of a poor application that was rushed before being thoroughly tested. I hope the Software Development Comp behind this app is hard at work to fix it.

Not well optimized for iPhone X

vladzaharia

The app is pretty good but really poorly optimized for the iPhone X. The top bar is just completely white, obscuring the status bar and just visually displeasing and the bottom bar is partially cut off by the home bar apple places. It seems like the developers didnt really have a physical device to test it out.

Hooray! Show Archive works!

polkloruli tsiqvi

Thanks so much for fixing the looping problem. I’ve been listening to the first 5 minutes of Larry’s Lounge, Wo’ Pop, and Riz’s show for awhile now, and am SO GLAD to be able to listen to the whole show on my phone — and to be able to select the start time for when I leave and come back to it. Keep up the good work, Devs — We appreciate it!

So far it is pretty pretty good

3hittolumby

The live playback has been pretty awesome

Great

Theulysses

For the most part, I really like this app. The one thing I hate: if you have Apple AirPods and you pull one of them out of your ear to pause the music and talk to a coworker, the music stops and you are forced to listen to the intro ad...every time. Super annoying. Edit 1/9/2018: this has been fixed.

KEXP rules; app needs help

Boudrodog

I've been a devote KEXP listener and contributor for the past 15 years. It is hands down the best radio station in the US (universe?). The website and app have potential, but are frequently buggy, especially the show archives. The app behaves inconsistently across my iPhone and iPad and even my wife's iPhone. Why does the app play from different (and wrong) time stamps when I try on multiple devices to play the same archived show (Seek & Destroy ??)? The live stream generally works great though, except the artist info won't load on my wife's phone. Thanks, KEXP, for being awesome IRL -- where it matters. Please help out your digital cyber app though. Give your robot army a fighting chance in the matrix.