94.9 KUOW Public Radio Seattle

- June 23, 2017

Everyone

Music & Audio

Contains ads

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Description

KUOW Public App:

The KUOW Public App allows you to listen to KUOW, pause and rewind the live audio, and view the program schedule all at once! You can explore On Demand content, search for programs, bookmark a program for later, and wake up to KUOW 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 to live streams from KUOW even while traveling! Start the app and your favorite station starts playing – no clicks to start listening.
• Integrated program schedules for the KUOW stream!
• One click stream switching – flip over to the program you noticed on another stream with a single click.
• Listen to KUOW in the background while browsing the web or catching up on your emails!

On Demand
• Access KUOW 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.
• Easy to access past programs.
• The KUOW 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.

Search
• The unique “Search Public Radio” feature finds stories or programs across hundreds of stations and web pages and makes it easy to play instantly.

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.

The KUOW Public Radio App is brought to you by the people at KUOW and Public Media Apps. We work to provide our valued listeners with great solutions to find what you want, when you want it, and where you want it.

Please support KUOW by becoming a member today!

http://www.kuow.org
http://www.publicmediaapps.com

Reviews

3.7

692 total

5 253

4 177

3 118

2 72

1 72

Hayden McManus

I love being able to stream live programs and also catch up on past stories using the app. I have a couple of complaints though. When I get a phone call while listening to audio content on the app, the audio keeps playing after the phone call connects. This is quite annoying! Also I would love to be able to pause the audio from the lock screen.

Chris Pasquini

The app continuously freezes streaming which means you can't follow a story on this radio channel. When it freezes, you lose track of the story. So incredibly frustrating. I've also had problems exiting the app. You have to hit the back button twice and sometimes that doesn't work sometimes I also need to open up all apps and X out that app as well. I have contacted their technical support on several occasions but they still can't get it together. Updating this after I don't know how long, and the problem still hasn't been solved.

Andrea Slusser

Overall, I like the app, and I use it quite a lot, since I moved out of Washington but prefer KUOW's programming. A couple of glitches, though: I have found no way to *close* the app... You have to wait for it to crash or reboot your phone. Not really a problem, just weird. I use the app almost exclusively for streaming KUOW's broadcast and sometimes after pausing the stream, the stream will come back on by itself. I imagine this will be rather annoying (read: embarrassing) someday.

Elizabeth Amador

I love KUOW and I love being able to listen on demand. But the app is glitchy. It freezes or it refuses to stop playing or 2 programs play at the same time. I like the new layout of the programs menu.

Mickey DuBois

Pretty glichy, so glitchy that it keeps asking me to rate it:/ Update: lowered my rating. Feed cuts out constantly. Sometimes starts during phone calls. So glitchy it's comedy.

Chen

not reliable to use. Frequently stopped on its own or start to play on its own. Sometimes it takes 4 times to turn it off.

User reviews

Hayden McManus July 3, 2017

Chris Pasquini July 1, 2017

Andrea Slusser July 15, 2017

Elizabeth Amador July 7, 2017

Mickey DuBois July 5, 2017

Pretty glichy, so glitchy that it keeps asking me to rate it:/ Update: lowered my rating. Feed cuts out constantly. Sometimes starts during phone calls. So glitchy it's comedy.

Chen July 6, 2017

not reliable to use. Frequently stopped on its own or start to play on its own. Sometimes it takes 4 times to turn it off.

July 8, 2017

The plus is I enjoy having an app to listen to KUOW, but the minus is it freezes and quits at least once an hour. So I don't use it for long periods.

Penelope Haskew July 15, 2017

I like being able to listen to kuow wherever but the app itself is glitchy and sometimes it's hard to turn it off or it's hard to turn it on

James Mustarde July 20, 2017

Don't bother. Streaming stops randomly. Very unstable.

Daniel Goodwin July 20, 2017

When I shut down the app it will continue to show as running on my pull down menu.

Julie Kadingo July 9, 2017

Love having the ability to connect with my former Seattle NPR station after moving 3000 miles away.

Peter Bryan July 21, 2017

Ui ain't great. Just ok.

Leigh Christianson July 5, 2017

Trusted news source

Dan McKillop July 5, 2017

Very clunky

Tami Wolff March 30, 2017

Cuts out often. Once I turn it off it will turn itself on again randomly. Have to restart my phone for it to turn off completely. The new logo looks too Etsy for my tastes. That said, I listen through the ap every morning because I don't have a radio in my house, so it is good enough.

Brad Edmison June 8, 2017

Has technical issues. Often have to go into settings and force stop to get it to shut up! Closing app does not work. I have galaxy s6 active.

Lauren Rowley June 23, 2017

After stopping listening and closing the app, a short time later it will start up again on its own. Very annoying and inexplicable. Used on a Galaxy S8+

derek atwood April 18, 2017

If i didnt like kuow, this horribly glitchy, always stopping and needing to be restarted pos app would be uninstalled already! Worst functioning app ive ever seen!!! I have to restart my phone to quit the app or it runs forever fix this crap!

Timothy Witten March 30, 2017

This is the only app I have for which I need to employ "tricks" to get it to work. EG, it often hangs on the opening advertisement, the, seemingly randomly, starts streaming 2, 5 or 10 minutes later. I don't have the cut out issue that others describe, but this is pretty annoying. I've reported it to the station, but they just told me they cannot replicate the problem. I get other station via app's just fine, so I know it's not my wifi.

Nicole Johnson May 3, 2017

The audio doesn't stop when i get a phone call. I have to answer the phone and yell over the app to ask people to hold on while i try to get it to stop playing.

May 27, 2017

This miserable excuse for an app has a too long commercial that it forces you to listen to, is glitchy when it runs, is difficult to shut down, and occasionally comes on without request. It has on more than one occasion run my battery to critical without my knowing it was even running. And then there is the joy of it not auto-muting when a call comes in. Every update diminishes the performance. I have reduced my support of this fine station until such ti.e as it provides a reliable app. When I am away from home listening to KQED in the Bay Area, I am left wondering how KUOW's app can be so horrible.

David Elliott April 7, 2017

When it works, it's great. Too many crashes and the streaming can't change networks without being restarted. Edit: 4/7/17 Streaming has been fixed. Very happy with it!

Mike Ricketts May 12, 2017

Glitchy as hell. Great except for the app randomly pausing audio or the opposite of magically playing for no reason on full blast speaker. Can somewhat be embarrassing in a quiet office setting Edit: 5/12 - Dropping this down to a 2. The app is getting worse can randomly launching by itself and completely randomly playing with absolutely no input from me.

April 7, 2017

I guess it works but I hate it. Bloated. Wish I could share any news item or program segment I hear via email.

April 28, 2017

This version has issues with being able to thrn it off once you close it. It just keeps playing. Very annoying.

April 28, 2017

The complaints in the reviews make me think that perhaps the problem is that the SIM cards are on the fritz. Ask your provider for a new one. Try it, you'll like it. I live in my van. After the app became available, I started listening on the phone, to use less of what the solar panels provide. After having the new app for several weeks, today was the first time I heard an instrument "clanging." Is there a way to listen to each segment that has aired, or are some only presented as text ? Six out of five stars !

Bryan Williams June 3, 2017

This app has issues. The audio restarts spontaneously after being paused. The audio even restarts after the app is closed. Then the only way to quiet it is to restart your phone e.

Daniel Epley March 30, 2017

So far so good. Minimal issues with playback, it only occasionally cuts out, but picks up where it left off. Pretty easy to use.

Sally Thomas March 30, 2017

I listen every morning. The app does cut out from time to time, replaying their opening 'ad'. It doesn't really bother me. I love being able to live stream the news.

Joyce Breithaupt March 29, 2017

Very unstable. Stops playing frequently compared to other apps. I'm using the free NPR app instead -- it is a much better platform for KUOW and other NPR stations.

William Totten March 31, 2017

Just installed new version of KUOW App; so, revising my rating to "5" from a"1". In two weeks, no drop outs! Major improvement! Now, I can concentrate on the content, not the app platform's poor performance.