Vermont Public

Vermont Public Radio

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About this app

The Vermont Public App:

The Vermont Public app allows you to listen and watch Vermont Public, and view the program schedule all at once! You can explore and listen to on demand content whenever you want, share stories with your friends and wake up to Vermont Public with the alarm clock!

Live Streaming
• DVR-like controls (pause, rewind, and fast forward). You can 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 and watch live streams from Vermont Public even while traveling! Start the app and your favorite station starts playing.
• Integrated program schedules for Vermont Public streams!
• One click stream switching – flip over to the program you noticed on another stream with a single click.
• Listen to Vermont Public in the background while browsing the web or catching up on your emails!

On Demand
• Access the Vermont Public's past programs easily and quickly.
• DVR-like controls. Pause, rewind and fast forward your program with ease.
• When listening to programs, individual segments (when available) are listed so you can review and choose one or listen to the entire program.
• The Vermont Public app displays the web page associated with the program or program segment you are listening to on demand so you can explore for more information.

Additional features
• Easily share stories and programs with family and friends via the “Share” button.
• A built in Sleep Timer and Alarm Clock allows you to go to sleep and wake up to your favorite station.
• Save what you were listening to (Live or On Demand) so you can replay, follow-up, or share it later by simply clicking “Bookmark”.

• Easy access to school closings, weather and other favorite features.
• Vastly improved in-app reading experience.

Vermont Public is Vermont’s unified public media organization, serving the community with trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and diverse educational programming. Formerly Vermont Public Radio and Vermont PBS, Vermont Public also provides local access to national programming from NPR and PBS. Its statewide radio and TV networks reach all of Vermont, as well as parts of New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts and Quebec, Canada. More information about programs, stations, services, and ways to support is available at vermontpublic.org.

Ratings and reviews

The programming is good, but I have difficulty when I'm connected to Wi-Fi, leave the Wi-Fi area and reconnect to cellular and visa versa. Every time this occurs, I lose the signal and then when the signal resumes I have an ad for 30 seconds or so. This makes the app unusable outside as I have both a weak Wi-Fi signal and a marginal cellular signal. This could be fixed if the app only played ads on the initial connection to the device and not on reconnections. BTW I'm a sustaining member.

The app is pretty good but when I'm listening to music in my car and I drive through a dead cell signal zone, as is frequent in Vermont, when I emerge from it the app is still spinning its wheel and does not recover. I do NOT have this problem with several other public radio apps, which recover smartly when the signal returns. Another issue, which may be the station or may be the app, is that, unlike other apps, it doesn't show what music I'm listening to. I have to look it up in the playlist.

I love VPR, but this is a terrible app. It's unresponsive, so you don't know whether it's registered a touch and everything takes forever, so you end up tapping again and pausing it because you didn't know it was playing. It does not keep your place in on-demand shows, and I have not figured out how to make it continue playing after my phone turns off, whatever it is, it's not a permission I can find. So it's constantly loses your place, and you have to start over.

What's new

Performance enhancements and bug fixes.
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