Annoying Ad
Whenever I want to listen to something it keeps playing the same ad for installing this app. The app I am already using.
Relentless interrupting AI adverts
The same four AI-scripted ads cycling endlessly, often cutting over live conversations and presenters, is an awful listener experience. Makes me wonder if anyone on the app team or management actually listen on streaming, because it’s a bizarre, desperate strategy.
Glitches
Difficult to find the episode or show that you’re looking for.
Episode episodes can take long time to load, or mysteriously there is no sound e.g. in the car automatically muted?
Episode episodes can take long time to load, or mysteriously there is no sound e.g. in the car automatically muted?
Do the basics well
Poor UI and poor execution to enable listening to a talk-show. A sad experience
No improvements
A response months later to my previous unfavourable review that says you’ve released a new update with improvements, when the same issues persist, is a little embarrassing. All you’ve done is try to force users into signing up, and added some CarPlay functionality. But all the old issues are still there. I’d perhaps choose a better white label app partner.
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Clunky.
Messy. In this day and age to have something this amateur is unforgivable
Andre
Looking at the reviews, those from over three years ago are mostly positive, while recent ones are overwhelmingly negative. Do you actually read and act on user feedback? The app performs very poorly. Despite years of complaints, the only real change has been more ads just to log in, suggesting revenue from advertising is prioritized over fixing the app.
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Awful App
I would really expect better from a media company. Constantly cuts out although shows it is playing. Sometimes it comes back but often not and have to close and reopen and go through the ads again only for it to happen again.
Lost me as a listener as I have come back several times but problem persists. Not my wifi signal as a) tested at various venues b) tested on different hardware and c) other streaming services don’t have this problem
Lost me as a listener as I have come back several times but problem persists. Not my wifi signal as a) tested at various venues b) tested on different hardware and c) other streaming services don’t have this problem
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Out of sync ads
I totally get the need to have ads! What I don’t get is why are they not synced to the show. There is nothing more frustrating than listening to Darren’s prank and slap bank in the middle of it an add will start, usually one that I have already heard 20 times that morning!
Toooooo many online ads
I love the sound quality via the app, and use it to stream in my car. BUT there are to many online ads, I use this app for KFM, but the ads pop up at anytime, interrupts traffic announcements, or when the DJ is busying chatting, and then that song they keep playing.
Ads Galore!!!
Very frustrating to follow the conversation or the clues for the pop quiz during the breakfast show, ads come on unexpectedly and the one after the other. 25 minutes into the show and mostly only ads. For example, the LekkeSlaap ad played 3 times from 06:00 - 06:23!!
Not good
Needs a serious service, or update, keeps cutting out, very frustrating.
App constantly fails
I listen to Cape Talk from UK and in Cape Town when home. I always seem to have to open it, close it, remove it and constantly “deal” with it. It seems to “collapse” randomly. using i phone 13pro and i phone16 pro. Same issue with both!
Waggles
I stopped using this app since they decided to play random ads while using on top of the fact that the station plays ads. While listening, a random ad will start playing, followed by 2 more ads. Very irritating when listening to the dj discuss some you’re very much interested in listening. Use another ap rather
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App crashes/closes iPhone 15
I tapped on “app support” - doesn’t work. This app shows great promise of only the bugs can be ironed out. I listen to previous episodes often and this app does not stay open especially when my phone sleeps after a short while. What’s frustrating is that it doesn’t continue where it stopped - I have to scroll to whichever spot I last listened to. Terribly frustrating- please fix this !!!!
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Adverts are king
Not sure what happened with the app a few months ago but it has really gone down hill. When it was first launched it wasn’t the best compared to the old CapeTalk app, but in the last few months it has really become worst. This morning while driving into work I heard the Absa ad many many times and I could hardly hear Lester as the sound for the presenter was almost off and the sound for the adverts was super high.
I really do miss the old CapeTalk app as I never had these problems with sound before and at least the old app never played adverts over the traffic report or over other ad’s. It really is annoying when an advert starts and then another ad plays over it only to hear the last few second of the pervious ad when the over layer ad finishes.
I would really love to have the old CapeTalk app back as that never had any issues or at the least, if they can just fix the sound and the stupid over played ad’s
I really do miss the old CapeTalk app as I never had these problems with sound before and at least the old app never played adverts over the traffic report or over other ad’s. It really is annoying when an advert starts and then another ad plays over it only to hear the last few second of the pervious ad when the over layer ad finishes.
I would really love to have the old CapeTalk app back as that never had any issues or at the least, if they can just fix the sound and the stupid over played ad’s
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Terrible app, it’s rather an advertising vehicle
This app is annoying. Broadcasts regularly gets interrupted with advertisements spliced in between. It is super annoying and the inter-splicing is so amateur. Rather tune into the radio or broadcasting on Dstv. The broadcaster cuts into live broadcasting to milk advertising revenue - that it so unethical. Streaming is not really regulated in this country so I do not know how or where to report this unethical behaviour.
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The update
The update is awful! I keep needing to reinstall it to get it to work
Terrible app
I much prefer the old app for listening to 702 and Cape Talk because I could listen on the old one. This new app has been full of issues from Day 1! I’ve uninstalled, reinstalled, turned phone off and on, done everything but it just ‘hangs’. I’d like to give it zero stars.
Doesn’t work
That old app worked fine. Now, if I am lucky I get to connect once every few days as it never connects. When I do manage to connect, there are constant adds at random times. No planning, just awful. I have stopped using it as a result
