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Why still ads?
I am a paying subscriber. I joined on the promise, as I understood it, that this paid membership would eliminate the ads ADDED by Simple Radio. But those ads still come in.
Here is a scenario. I am listening to a talk show on my car radio. I arrive at my destination. To keep listening as I exit the car I launch the Simple Radio app tuned to the same radio station. I don't want to miss a word. But Simple Radio plays an ad first - an ad not playing on the car radio. I know this ad is not from the broadcast radio station because when the ad ends the talk show comes in mid-sentence.
I tried to contact Simple Radio with this complaint but I couldn't get past their defenses against contact with an actual human.Show lessVfctrkjh
Developer Response
I apologize for our misunderstanding. Our subscriptions remove visual ads within the app context, we do not add audio commercials. Those come directly from the radio broadcasters and work differently from the commercials they stream via their over-the-air broadcast. For more information, please contact us at ios-cs@streema.com.It was great
No longer simple. The free app no longer plays when app is not displayed on the screen. Also now stops playing if the screen is not on (burning through your battery) showing add. Both issues can be fixed by paying their subscription. There are still breaks (disconnects) in music play back even with paying and commercials. Further disappointment in undocumented fact that each on my devices have to pay subscription. Looking for replacement app.
Response to developer: I have been using app for weeks at a time for 6 months. The app did work without any issues AND NO subscription. The prior versions played with screen off and if I used another app. I have only updated app and NOT iOS. The subscription does seem to work across multiple iOS devices but app still shows incorrectly that it wants you to subscribe.Show lessb-5678
Developer Response
I apologize for our misunderstanding. Thank you for contacting us. You do not need to purchase a subscription for Simple Radio to work on the background. This is caused by an aggressive battery optimization strategy implemented by your phone manufacturers. To fix it, please try the following: Open iOS Settings, select Screen Time, then select Always Allowed, and lastly, add the Simple Radio app to the list. For more information on this matter, contact us at ios-cs@streema.com, please. Thank you!Great IF NOT DRIVING
This is my goto radio app and I tell everyone about it. I can only give it 3 stars because it does not automatically reconnect to cell towers while driving. I always have to play with changing the channel I am listening to and go back to what I am listening to in order for it to reconnect OR I have to close the app and reopen the app to get it to reconnect. I commented on this over a year ago. The problem remains. If they can finally resolve this issue, I will give it 5 stars. What I like most about this app is that they don’t censor Infowars and they don’t make me set up a profile to profile me based on what I listen to. UPDATE: 7-8-22. I use Simple Radio on the iPhone 6 version of the global track and trace devices that THEM in charge of the New Liberal Normal have conditioned US to pay for and pay for upgrading. Since the latest version, the inability to reconnect during tower changes while driving is worse AND it now stops playing quite often while on home WI-FI, which this app never did before, as if it’s caching the stream. I pay for 600MBps down and 20 MBps up. That shouldn’t be happening on my home Wi-Fi.Show lessCloudRebel
Developer Response
Thank you for posting a review and keeping us informed about how best to serve your needs. We would like the opportunity to talk and investigate your feedback further. Could you contact us at ios-cs@streema.com? We look forward to your email. Thank you!Recent problems
I have used this app for a long time and enjoyed it very much. However, of late I have NOT enjoyed it.
Recently the app has started ad pop ups about every 4 or 5 minutes, interrupting the program I was on (I enjoy old time crime and science fiction dramas). I used to be able to open it, start one I wanted to listed to, and it played in the background while I did other things on my phone. Now, its adds stop the program, forcing me to stop whatever I was doing, and go to it to fix. Or, it will just stop playing as soon as I minimize it. Or it will start a garbling of the sound as I minimize it and open something else.
I would have to close the app and reopen to get it to stop, but shortly it would start again.
I have deleted it from my phone. I will try one more time with it, and if it just doesn’t stop, I will delete it and never use it again. (Which, I know, is no big deal to you; there are plenty of other users, but I just thought you ought to know that it’s really irritating and frustrating to lose part of the show I was listening to just because of ads!). Thanks anyway, though, for the enjoyment I did get.)Show lessSanantoniodawn
Developer Response
Thanks for reaching out. I definitely understand your concern and would like to escalate your issue to get to the bottom of this. Could you please send any screenshots related to the issue along with your device details to ios-cs@streema.com? Thank you!You bring me hone to my roots
Been in Florida for 35 years, Bronx made, born and native. Loud n proud of my Bronx and all we are about, Cocola y orgullosa, oh your station brings me back to my child hood days, fire escape hot summer nights, hand ball hustle for my $ to pay my way in to clubs n salsa all night. All the way back to salsa on roller skates, Yessss I love every second of tuning in. From Leesburg Florida living lake side in the country surrounded by RED NECKS, yes Red Necks, I tune in , crank up the volume n get to fishing, trimming, weeding and enjoy my neighbors shaking their butts to your tunes n my roots. Love life n love you all.
God blessShow lesslissi cortes
I left TuneIn forever.
Simple Radio beats TuneIn hands-down. No ads, no shoving a subscription down your throat, just an intuitive app. Search could be improved to zero in on an exact call sign or zipcocde, but either way the design is great for channel-surfing. Perhaps the app’s biggest caveat is it’s greatest strength: no Iheart or Cumulus stations. You don’t get the corporate stations that sound exactly the same nationwide, but you also don’t get their annoying and repetitive stop sets which detract from the local flavor of the station. This is a really great app.Show lessSoundMan87
My thoughts on WEKT Heavenly 1070
Thank you sooo much for asking for my thoughts about your Radio Station.
I really hope and pray that your station gets a stronger signal, (going around wires, etc makes a lot of static interference, and I miss it at night.
I enjoy hearing your Gospel Music, ~ Ethel Waters, Mahalia Jackson, and sooo many others; Southern Gospel Music, ~ Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Gaithers, The Goodmans’s, The Speer Family, The Cathedrals, and many others.
Songs of Hymns, The Original of Amazing Grace, It Is No Secret, What A Day That Will Be, Oh What A Savior, Nearer My God To Thee, and I could take all day to name them all.
Inspirational, ~ We Shall Behold Him,
Contemporary, ~ In Christ Alone, Ten Thousand Reasons, on The Wings Of Love, The Midnight Cry, Do You Have His Heart, Or Just His Robe?, and a lot of others.
Comments and Devotions, etc.
I hope and pray that your station stays with Christian Gospel Music, I also love Joy Christian Radio, “Share The Joy”!!!
May The Lord bless you and your station, beyond measure, in Jesus Christ’ Holy Name, Amen.Show lessCindytrax
Works well most of the time
Works great most of the time. I like it. The problem is it sometimes refuses to release the user from viewing the advertising. The result is the user is unable to control the program material. This often happens when program is temporarily paused. It can’t then be restarted. It’s annoying! Hope this can be resolved in the near future. Otherwise works really well and allows access to radio stations all over the world that one would otherwise be unable to receive.Show lessSkidog69
Almost there..
What a gr8 App! The only way to listen to a world wide variety of music! What ever the mood you will be able to find something really great to listen to! I think it’s awesome that you can listen to stations from so many countries and as hear their news and happenings which is very interesting! Maybe even make new friends in other countries when you
communicate with the DJs! I also have to say when I was having trouble getting a British station to connect-the simple radio customer service guy was so helpful! He collaborated with me and zeroed in on the issue and worked on it until it was fixed! Yay! That’s worth 5 stars!Show lessMamaHawk69
Stops streaming every minute or so
Can’t complain about a free app, but I wish I could turn on a station and play a full song without the streaming stopping until I open the app, view the advertisement pop-up and tap to close the ad several times. Once I close the add streaming always continues, but I do wish I could listen to a full song without going through the steps. Also sometimes when I have a strong cell signal, the app will say I’m not connected and can’t stream, but ads can somehow still load and pop up repeatedly? How does that work?Show lessDon't Use Waze
