NPR Reviews – Page 2

Please add a function to clear the playlist already played.

now a baffled user!

It was there in previous versions.

How on God’s green earth has this app been so bad for so long?

PiscesFish

I’ve been forced to use this app for years, and I absolutely hate it. Shows you’re interested in or didn’t get to finish are hard to find, there’s a button to jump forward to the next track but there’s no way to jump forward 30 seconds or anything like that. Conversely, you can rewind 15 seconds at a time but there’s no way to go back to the previous track or start over. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve accidentally jumped to the next track and been unable to find what I was listening to (Sometimes it’s because I’m driving and I just can’t have my eyes off the road while I dig through the awful menu.) In short, this app is a disgrace and I can’t believe how long it’s been since they’ve updated it. I’m pretty sure I remember using this app before the 2016 election and being equally irritated. I wouldn’t pay even $.25 for this app!

Love the news, hate the battery drain

leslieann75

I find that streaming a local station for thirty minutes (28 in the background) drains over half the battery of a new iPhone. What’s up with that?

Horrible interface!

smiley511923

I liked the previous one sooooo much more. This one is so limited on the home page. Uuugghhh. Hope the change it back

Bad, just bad!

Kkcb32

The constant NPR announcements every time the app is paused, a text comes through, an alarm goes off, or anything the phone does and comes through as a sound or notification...i can’t listen to the live radio without constant interruptions! I’d rather just have straight commercials built in to the dang programming. So annoying.

Steals Clipboard Contents

anon was taken

iOS 14 added notifications when an app pulls data from the clipboard. Turns out every time this app is opened, it snoops on your clipboard contents, and presumably this has been happening for years. I wonder how much private information the developers have gathered this way over the years and what they have done with it.

Spying on Your Clipboard

fugly_mofo

Thanks a lot NPR, you’re sure a “trusted news source” now that I know you’re spying on my clipboard!

Great for Streaming Classical Music

Wingingit

Love streaming classical music through my Yamaha amplifier and other audio equipment. Once my cell phone airplays my local NPR station, the wifi-connected Yamaha amp takes over and plays the music directly, acting as the “radio”. Quality is excellent. No loss in quality as music is streamed direct to the Yamaha amp, yet the amp can still be controlled by a phone or from the amp for the basic functions.

Lackluster experience

kwjohns83

This app isn’t very user friendly. Takes so much effort just to listen to the last episode of my favorite shows. No way to favorite or subscribe to shows so I have to browse through their entire catalog every time to find my shows. Can’t fast forward or rewind XX seconds from the iOS playback controls. You have to enter the app and use the built in controls.

I want to love this but it fails in one key way

BCBrown0

The app as of today does not load today’s show of Morning Edition. I used to be able to get today’s Morning Edition but for quite some time now it just loads yesterday’s. This makes it not usable for my important morning news cycle.