Classical California User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience90.2% of reviews
Neutral4.6% of reviews
Negative experience5.2% of reviews

~ Based on 153 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Classical California Safe?

Classical California appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Classical California is 98/100.

This assessment is based on 12,279 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.9/5.

Safety Analysis

97.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.1% of ratings suggest some concerns
1.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 12,267 App Store ratings for Classical California.

Is Classical California Legit?

Classical California appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Classical California is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Has hidden popups begging for donations

Has hidden popups begging for donations. Soft locks you from interacting while the bubble appears. Shameful and manipulative.

Another poor performing app

I was forced to download this app and retire my kdfc app for no good reason other than to satisfy the marketing department. The new app doesn’t work and is so poorly designed that the icon that is supposed to connect to my speakers is on top of the volume indicator. And after repeated tries, still doesn’t work. See you KDFC, it’s back to WFCC despite them having less agreeable programming!
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Glissandro

The remarkable calmness of Glissando benefits the soul of the listener at all hours, especially to one who works overnight and needs a gentle stroke in the middle of the night.
A toast and thanks to all who work on this station.

The App

Hard to see at night.
Change it back !
Please

High Fidelity?

96 kbps is not a “high fidelity” stream as advertised.

Unable to use

App doesn’t work with iOS 26.2

Chatty ego and i cold L.D. who insists on repeating Her name

Please ask her to be more humble and human. And Her selections appear to be only what She is interested in and opinionated about. The softness of the evening is gone when I hear “ hello and welcome…”

Great but stalls

I love the app and being able to listen to KUSC anywhere – but the stream is not very stable. Constantly stopped stalled.

Tune out when it’s time for L Downs

How many times must we hear L Downs name or her promotion of herself and her piano music . Am I wrong? Since the departure of Jim S. the station seems to have taken a strange turn. I listen all the time. But find other venues when she is on. The evening softness is gone and her ego is just overwhelming .
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Very good but the programs are repetitive

The program and streams seems to rotate a full cycle playing the same songs every day rather than daily different music with some spoken word between music repeated 2-3 times at times and tunes, particularly in the great escape, is VERY repetitive

A Joyful Noise is church for me on Sunday morning

Your beautiful music got me through the pandemic. That’s when I became a sustaining member. I live alone, and the first thing I do every morning is ask Alexa to play KUSC. It’s my companion throughout the day, and A Joyful Noise is my two hours of zen on Sunday morning.

Can’t stream KUSC anymore

I noticed that the app on my iPhone was updated 2 days ago, which is exactly when the KUSC stream via IHeartRadio stopped playing via my Echoes, in the middle of the day. I just tried the app but although it shows it as playing, there is no sound. The app also asked me to let it access my music library for some reason and I said no. It never asked me for that before.
I also tried streaming KUSC via the IHeartRadio app on my Roku and got a “content not available” message.
Alexa says that it’s having trouble playing the station right now.
I also am not able to hear anything if I pull up the website in Safari or Chrome and hitting the play button makes it spin endlessly.
Their website doesn’t say anything about having technical difficulties and i don’t want to open a ticket because they want my phone number and I don’t want to give it out, so hopefully someone from there is checking the reviews.
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The best

Simply the best classical music app!

Tune out when it’s time for L Downs

How many times must we hear L Downs name or her promotion of herself and her piano music . Am I wrong? Since the departure of Jim S. the station seems to have taken a strange turn. I listen all the time. But find other venues when she is on. The evening softness is gone and her ego is just overwhelming .
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KUSC RATING

KUSC IS THE BEST CLASSIC MUSIC STATION I HAVE LISTENED TO.
LOVE IT.
THANK YOU.

The Escape

With the hectic lifestyle of Southern California, KUSC is my escape. The calming voices of the DJs and knowledge of the music add to the experience of KUSC. As a long time listener, thank you for making SoCal a little less hectic.

I love it!

I love listening to your classical music channel.

I still listen in Western North Carolina

We loved and supported KUSC when we lived in Mount Washington, and we continue to listen here in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Rate KUSC

I am so grateful to have KUSC . I am an ex New YORkER where KQXR was my go to classical music station. KUSC sets a new standard for listeners like me.
Robbie Schaffer

Love the KUSC live streams from Hollywood bowl

Awesome love hearing the LA Philharmonic