New England Public Media 4+

Now: OnDemand doesn’t appear to be working at all. Been like this for at least 2 weeks. It’s killing my buzz man. I agree with other Reviews too about the Stream should have more control to go back in case missed something, it just restarts if you close out and try again… or it did before a couple weeks ago!!! Prev(edited): The latest update appears to have trouble with OnDemand, at least for Jazz. Everything else including Jazz Safari just keeps loading without ever playing or even showing anything past 0:00. Please fix! I need my jazz fix OnDemand!

I wrote an earlier review, though it doesn’t seem to be included here. The first time I tried using it the app was glitchy and then simply froze, despite a recent update. It remained unresponsive even after closing and reopening several times. I finally deleted the app and then re-downloaded it. That seems to have taken care of the problem and it has worked fine this evening. I was able to watch a program without any glitches. I’m looking forward to using it more. Giving it a 4⭐️ for now, but if all remains well the next few times I use the app I’ll come back and put in a 5⭐️ review.

App feels like someone’s first try; cumbersome, poor graphics, navigation is odd, lacks common features.

-It should have now playing for music data, not just the stream. That’s normal now for everything comparable.
-The navigation is poor. For example, when leaving a music selection the player view is lost as is control over the stream. The user oddly must navigate back to the exact page just to pause the stream.
-The color and page layouts are basic an unappealing. Functionally lacks logic and information on selections and option/selection details.

The app is the opposite of the good experience I have listening to the on air station or using the web site. Too bad.