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Please give listeners control
This new app is bad enough that I could consider stopping my monthly donations after decades of support. I want to choose what I want to listen to and then it stops playing when it gets to the end. Please do not play content I didn’t ask for. Also, search and content cataloging are too hard to work with. It feels defeating at times. I find myself listening to NPR less.Show lessKevsterzzz
Could be so much better
Really needs a playback speed selector. 1x isn't good for everyone.Perihelion88
Developer Response
Hi, thanks for writing in. We're happy to report that we've launched listening speed controls for on-demand content. Please give it a try and let us know what you think - you can find the button when you're viewing the expanded full-screen player. Happy listening!Latest update ruined the app
I just started using the updated NPR One app. One thing I like to do in the app is keep tabs on multiple NPR stations that have programming I enjoy and local news from places I am connected to. You can no longer do that in the new version.
You can choose one station, identified as your local station, and stream that. You can no longer save a list of favorite stations.
So every time I want to switch stations, I have to go through the process to choose my local station and find the station all over again and select it. I have to do it again to go back to a different station. Why would I want to do all of that? Some of the stations I like listening to have their own apps, and I might just use those instead.
Also, the landing screen and all of the other screens are so cluttered with information about podcasts or curated content that they think I might want to listen to that I can’t actually find the stuff I DO want to listen to. But here’s the thing: the things I want to listen to are on a few different stations. I can find my favorite podcast more easily on my podcast app. So I don’t see any reason to use NPR One anymore.Show lessPamandjana
Update is buggy
This was a great, user friendly app. Now I can’t stream the latest newscast. Also, when I listen live, it’ll suddenly stop streaming mid-story. What was broken that needed this fix?Lobcrust
Simply dreadful redesign
I spend time selecting segments for my playlists and putting them in a particular order. I can’t move segments around with this redesign, the app ignores the order and just skips around playing random segments, which means that all my favorite segments and episodes that I had saved in a part of the list that I seldom play back just disappeared while I was sleeping—several years’ worth of favorites that I’ll never retrieve, because the “just played” list is not part of this redesign.
Everything is slower and clunkier—my playlist takes extra seconds to load, screen by screen as I scroll down, played segments don’t disappear right away after they’re played, you need to reload the page and then they’ll disappear, or maybe not, maybe you’ll have to delete segments you’ve listened to one by one, waiting for the page to reload in between each deletion and then scrolling down to get back to your place—none of which I had to do in the old app! Finally, the app is less intuitive and more confusing to navigate than it used to. Oh, and On Point is gone. I wish I could just go back to the old app; it wasn’t perfect, but it was much, much better than this.Show lessFelsina
Zero Stars. Terrible. Forced NPR One!
[10 December 2023] Updated, and still obnoxious. Still pushes NPR One. Hourly News Update doesn’t stop at 5 minutes, the app just rolls into whatever other programming it chooses, with no option to stop it. NPR One mode, whether the listener wants it or not! Too manipulative! And what is this obsession with NPR One? Why the hard sell? Back off!
[5 December 2023] Stop it! Stop forcing NPR One on everyone! You’ve ruined NPR by forcing everyone to use this contrived mess, just so that you can meet whatever quota you’re pushing. NPR will be losing listeners over this. Shame on whatever executives came up with this policy. [22 February 2021] NPR is great. This app is not. It stops playing and pushes listeners to the more intrusive NPR One app instead. This isn’t a glitch, it’s a manipulative policy. Pity. [3 March 2020] The app will no longer play in the background. It just dies when the buffer is emptied. That makes it nearly useless, since it makes no sense to have to look at the screen to just listen to radio. The app effectively pushes the listener to local stations, which, however, are full of advertising and clatter. Terrible. Have we lost NPR forever?Show lessJustCritic
Broke what didn’t need to be fixed
The interface was simpler before. Now it’s kind of clunky and the add to playlist button doesn’t do anything.Mike*W
Potential to be great
I think the NPR app could be great! I had an npr app that was orange a few years ago. It would show the station’s itinerary for the day with the times. I found that SO helpful! This new one doesn’t even show the name of what it is playing - only the station name. I moved to the PNW a few years ago, and I greatly dislike the npr stations up here. I like to listen to the ones back home - KGOU and KERA. But, I never know which show is playing until I start listening - the time change always throws me off.
Is there a way to have a listing of what’s coming - like on a tv guide kind of thing (Like where it highlights where it is or moves the bar so you can see what is playing at that exact time)? I would think NPR would have the resources to make this a great app. Could you please put a team on it to make it more user-friendly like many other “entertainment” type apps. Thank you!!Show lessBritishLitChick
Love npr but hating the app
Improve news is great but I cannot listen to the live broadcast because of work so I love loading pieces of news that most interest me and listening to them as I get a chance. This is where the app totally fails. When I look at all things considered our morning edition it consistently odd leaving out news pieces. Like this morning, there where only all the 4 news pieces in the morning edition feed. Why aren’t news pieces loading? In the npr one app all the news pieces are there. But in that app you can’t stream the pieces you want to listen to later in sequence. What should really happen is the apps teams for this app and npr one should take the best features of each app and make one single app. Why have two?
Update. There must be some glitch in the app. This bug makes stories not appear. After going back into the app and moving around to different programs all the morning edition stories finally appeared. This isn’t always the case though. Wish they would figure this out.Show lessDJRJr
Possibly the Worst App Build of All Time
Whoever was in charge of the project to build this appshould not only be fired, but they should be dragged in front of all the NPR employees, have the stripes ripped from their shoulders, their sword snapped in two across the knee of some enforcer, and be sent alone out the gates of the fort out into the wilderness, never to be seen or heard from again. Seriously, this work should bring shame to the entire family of whomever turned it in as a complete project.
I like to fall asleep to talk. Especially any kind of science story. So with that in mind NPR’s app should easily be in my top ten and maybe it would be, had they bothered to build an app. Want to make a playlist of the stories you’re interested in? Well, there’s some buttons that will take you, step by step, through all the sensations of picking out your own stories and putting them in the order you choose, but that’s about where it ends. Half the time, the “playlist” stops after the first story. Great a playlist of one, yay? The other half the time, when it does continue to the next story, it starts about 2/3 of the way. This would be useful, we’re I only interested in the end of a story. Unfortunately, as much as I appreciate a good landing, I need the context. This app is so poorly made it’s offensive.Show lessJustin N Osos
