I get what they are trying to go for with the name, this app. There’s no pause button, just like listening to live FM radio.
I suppose you get a mute button, but it’s UI is counterintuitive, and why the heck would anyone want to mute but not pause?! Do app developers believe the audience wants to mute and miss part of the show, but not pause?
There’s no volume equalization, so if a show has middling audio quality, you’ll be constantly adjusting the volume to hear what’s being said. Just like listening to FM radio.
When one show ends (probably the one you follow), you are thrown into the middle of an unrelated live show with hosts you don’t follow and with no subject context. Just like changing radio stations, except you didn’t change anything.
Worse still, when you open Stereo , it throws you into a random live feed where hosts are swearing and/or talking about sensitive subjects. Beware opening Stereo in certain environments, like a work office.
For shows you do follow, Stereo doesn’t give you context if you’ve already listened to an episode or not.
Stereo would’ve been good 10 years ago. But now we know how good live feeds can be with play-pause, forward/back 15 seconds, and skip-to-live functionality.
Even though my favorite podcast is now producing a show on this app app (paid sponsorship), I’ve listened twice, but won’t again due to the above functionality limitations.