Review
I love having very important articles read to me that I would never have taken the time to read! In exploring topics that I formerly regarded as “secondary,” i.e.,articles that I didn’t agree with, my eyes have been opened to the severity of dangers to the U.S., it’s legal foundation, and our democracy. Now that I’m aware, I’m talking to my friends about my concerns and fears. Thank you for this superb compilation of readings and thank you for bringing them within my reach by reading them to me. The readers, too, are easy on the ears, and they don’t read too fast which allows me to absorb the material which sometimes requires deep reflection.
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Still buggy after all these updates
AUDM has great content though, as others have pointed out, has sparse offerings from some of the publications that may have attracted you. The app is a stripped down audio player with no bookmarking, cross device play is hit and miss if you use more than one device, forget trying to fast scrub by touch—it isn’t supported. The app stutters, does weird time indexing (buffer mishandling), inserts strange awkward pauses. “Did the article end?” “No it’s just pausing for irritating effect.” It is very difficult to recommend the service as implemented despite the great content. Today I could not get the app to play for several minutes without quitting the app repeatedly. Older devices crash the app. These are issues still present from prior versions! No bug fixes for 6 months. Today it lost my profile. I had to delete and reinstall. I discovered that even automated support is nonexistent.
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Great listening, app has missing features
The content on Audm is fabulous. Great narrative stories with excellent readers. The app, however, is frost rating. Like other reviewers said, I come here for long form journalism, compelling stories, and profiles. The feed is taken up by 5 min news clips. The Trending section needs to get refreshed for recency. A story about Hunter Biden’s laptop has been the top story for weeks. Who cares. I’d like to filter by story types- longform, profile, narrative journalism, crime etc. I would also like to follow publications. And the queue functionality needs improvement. Currently there is only the option to “play next”. I would like to play next, play later, play last like the Apple Podcasts app.
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Fabulous fabulous
Easy to use. Excellent content. Engaging voices. Good pacing. Incredible value.
If you are a person who often looks longingly after articles shared on Twitter that exist behind paywalls that you either can’t afford to pass or know you won’t have time to make it worth it if you did choose to subscribe, then this is absolutely for you.
I’ll be honest, if you don’t actively want to read more excellent articles, I am not sure it will create this desire for you, but if you have any inclination towards excellent journalism- I recommend this so much.
If you are a person who often looks longingly after articles shared on Twitter that exist behind paywalls that you either can’t afford to pass or know you won’t have time to make it worth it if you did choose to subscribe, then this is absolutely for you.
I’ll be honest, if you don’t actively want to read more excellent articles, I am not sure it will create this desire for you, but if you have any inclination towards excellent journalism- I recommend this so much.
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Too busy to read?? You can listen to great journalism
I love AUDM! Grocery shopping, loading and unloading the dishwasher and doing the laundry - along with endless other boring stuff I have to do - is now an opportunity to be catching up on terrific articles that I don’t have time to sit and read.
if you are in the same fix and don’t have enough time to sit and enjoy reading great articles, AUDM is godsend for frustrated readers, providing audio versions of great long form journalism from terrific publications and you get access to dozens of articles from an extensive list of magazines including The Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, New Yorker and many more. The monthly cost is best described as a screaming deal - I don’t know they do it, but I am just glad they do!
if you are in the same fix and don’t have enough time to sit and enjoy reading great articles, AUDM is godsend for frustrated readers, providing audio versions of great long form journalism from terrific publications and you get access to dozens of articles from an extensive list of magazines including The Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, New Yorker and many more. The monthly cost is best described as a screaming deal - I don’t know they do it, but I am just glad they do!
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