LAist

KPCC, Southern California Public Radio - Apps

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About this app

The LAist App: 
The LAist App allows you to listen to LAist, pause and rewind the live audio, and view the program schedule for LAist. You can listen to LAist and NPR Podcasts whenever you want, and send messages to the station.
 
Live Streaming
• DVR-like controls (pause, rewind, and fast forward within a few seconds).  Pause the live stream to have a conversation and pick up right where you left off or rewind to catch a comment you just missed!
• Listen to LAist even while traveling! No need to rely on a radio signal with this digital stream.
• Integrated program schedules for the LAist stream.
• One click stream switching — flip over to the program you noticed on another stream with a single tap.
 
Podcasts
• Easy access to LAist's past programs.
• Full description and links to the LAist webpage versions of each story or episode.
• DVR-like controls.  Pause, rewind and fast forward your program with ease. 
• When listening to programs, individual stories or episodes  (when available) are listed so you can review and choose one or listen to the entire program.
 
 
Additional features
• Share stories and programs with family and friends via the “Share” button.
 • Built-in Sleep Timer and Alarm Clock allow you to go to sleep and wake up to your favorite station.
 • Send the station a voice mail or video message via the “Talk to Us” feature!
 
The LAist App is brought to you by the people at Southern California Public Radio and Public Media Apps.  We work to provide our valued listeners with great solutions to find what you want, when you want it, on any device.
 
Please support LAist by becoming a member today!

https://laist.com/
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Ratings and reviews

The newest version is just so-so. It has some features that work and fixes a long-standing bug, but certain podcasts that used to work now appear to have no content and are unplayable. The ads are irritating but understandable -- donations probably aren't keeping up, so you need more revenue. Fine. Edit: several weeks later and still certain shows appear, but have no playable content on the platform. 😕

When listening to On-Demand, the recording stops every few minutes. I hit play again & the recording is stepped back a minute. I have to jump forward to the spot it stopped. Then in a few minutes or less it happens again. This goes on until the recording is complete. I have deinstalled the app & reinstalled twice. Nothing changes. This has happened in various locations, so it's not that I'm in a bad signal location. This is a fairly new occurrence beginning July 25th.

Two stars for the app and an extra star because LAist programming is so excellent. The name, that's another story, a terrible gaffe I will never get used to. As for the app itself each iteration, I'm sorry to say, gets worse and worse. the first version I ever used had a sleep timer! It also didn't cut off for no reason at all in the middle of a program. This latest version is incredibly glitchy, regularly turns off on a whim -- and always in the middle of a really interesting segment.

What’s new

Performance enhancements and bug fixes.
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