Doesn’t play well with CarPlay
All of a sudden, the screen comes up blank when I open the app in CarPlay. It makes it unsafe to drive when you have to open the app directly on your phone to get the screen to populate.
App used to be SO much better
What I don’t understand is that this app used to be able to cache the livestream. The user could pause, rewind and fast-forward to catch up, so we *know* it’s possible. This functionality disappeared around the pandemic (when it was still the KPCC app.) Why torture those of us who are information junkies (and pay $100s to LAist) by taking this functionality away? Is it so you could pump every restart with a contributor’s ‘ad’ (which, coincidentally, got more aggressive around the time the caching functionality disappeared and the app became prone to crashing..?) Please tell us this isn’t a ‘cash grab’ effort by a PUBLIC radio affiliate, gone wrong?! As an end-user who misses content constantly because of app crashes, I can tell you it has the opposite effect: having to listen to the same sponsorship ‘ad’ before you can get back to the content you are missing simply gives one a negative association with that contributor statement. Please bring *back* caching functionality!
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Barely functional
Most of the time when I bring it up in CarPlay it is a blank screen with nothing to play. Then it pauses when the gps announces a turn, but take waaayyy too long to play again. I’ve taken to just listening on the radio with extremely poor reception in Santa Monica going over the 405 pass. But better than the awful app. I used to be able to as Siri to play kpcc and that worked great. Unfortunately Siri constantly mis-hears LAist and I am forced to use my phone or the CarPlay screen while driving. Not ideal and, as I wrote above, barely functional.
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