Why?????
Why????? You ruined a perfectly good experience. Now I can’t listen to the entire episode at once in my car. Downloading is a pain now. There’s no introduction anymore which helped to understand what was coming. The previous app was simple, and it was my favorite way to learn Spanish. I’ll probably cancel if this doesn’t improve. :(
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French
Horrible. Was perfect before. Easy functional. This is one of the most useless “ improvements “ ever. Change for the sake of change. Might b my last month. Too bad was enjoyable
Playlists
I love that you can now grab clips that interest you and set up a playlist to practice with a bunch at a time. The old format had so many boring segments interspersed with interesting ones. Now pick and choose and make a playlist. Downside: downloading playlists for offline usage is tedious/not possible. One playlist I made will only partially download. The other keeps saying “error, try later,” and never downloads. Not good.
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Response from developer
We have been improving playlist and download functionality in recent updates. Please try downloading your playlists when you have a reliable wifi connection.
Not sure...
I like some of the new features, but I can’t seem to download any of the articles in order to play them when I’m not on WiFi. You could do this with the old App. I see that you can create a “playlist” and add articles to it, but that does not mean that you can listen to an article when not connected to mobile data or wifi....? I like to listen on my journey to work, so used to download before leaving the house so I didn’t have to use my mobile data.
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Good
Better designed than the old app. Good to be able to move from story to story rather than just the weekly episodes - but I would still like to be able to listen to the whole episode in one go.
Confused
The old App stopped working and I had to dig around to find that this was planned and I needed a new App. A bit like finding your favorite store has switched off the lights and locked the door but not bothered to put a note on the door.
With the old App I simply downloaded the week’s news and listened to it. Simple and effective. I’m still trying to work out how I can do this with the new App. It looks like I need to create a playlist, then flick through news stories (the same story can appear under several headings) and add each one to my playlist. Just to get back to where I was with the old App.
The new layout looks impressive but if I wanted to browse through different articles listed as International, Spain or Culture I can do that on El País.
Disaster.
With the old App I simply downloaded the week’s news and listened to it. Simple and effective. I’m still trying to work out how I can do this with the new App. It looks like I need to create a playlist, then flick through news stories (the same story can appear under several headings) and add each one to my playlist. Just to get back to where I was with the old App.
The new layout looks impressive but if I wanted to browse through different articles listed as International, Spain or Culture I can do that on El País.
Disaster.
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Good starting point, needs some tweaks
Overall, the direction of the app seems good. The original one was a bit outdated. Functionally, the new one needs some adjustments like landscape mode, more familiar organizing, and some general UI tweaks. At the moment, without landscape, it’s pretty much unusable on my iPad. Looks good on the iPhone though.
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Could be improved
The content is great. 5 stars there. But maybe consider adding an option to just play one episode all together. A big use case I would think is hopping in the car and just letting it play. Can’t do that with this app because it’s so broken up in pieces. So maybe also have a place where the all the pieces of July 7th for example are together in a ~25 minute episode.
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Response from developer
We have addressed this feature in recent updates. You can now listen to full episodes just like on our website.
Superior on an iphone
This is a large improvement over the old app. It brings it more inline with their website. I specifically like how the articles are grouped. This makes it easy to find articles you are interested in reading. The advanced section of opinion articles is amazing! Perfect for pushing one’s abilities. I am using the Italian version.
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Formally great app total failure on ipad
Whoever thought it was a good idea to release this app only in portrait mode on the iPad should lose their job. Punto!
What used to be a terrrific app is rendered unsuable if iPad is in landscape mode, this is a significant problem for people using the large iPad pro. This makes me very sad, because I will now have to use the web site. It also makes me angry because this is clearly the result of thoughtless development and careless release. Common guys get it together!
What used to be a terrrific app is rendered unsuable if iPad is in landscape mode, this is a significant problem for people using the large iPad pro. This makes me very sad, because I will now have to use the web site. It also makes me angry because this is clearly the result of thoughtless development and careless release. Common guys get it together!
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Response from developer
We have improved several features in recent updates. landscape mode now works on the iPad and other devices.
