Progressive Voices App Reviews

Than this is ProgressiveVoicesApp for you. While randi Rhodes is playing live on you tube or free speech tv ProgressiveVoicesApp plays nothing but commercials. Sure it works on occasion but it’s always a crap shoot. Seems as it was bought out by tune in radio or some such business and they’ve really messed it up.

All the shows are great, but it keeps turning it self off when the screen goes into sleep mode. I have to tap the screen on my iPhone to make sure ProgressiveVoicesApp stays on. It’s a shame. Ever since conservatives took over AM1050 there’s no progressive radio stations In SoCal..

I used to listen all the time but now, for some reason, the stations/shows aren’t there anymore. I don’t know if it’s a satellite issue or something else, but I don’t get anything but non-stop commercials and ads, NO CONTENT. It’s been going on for weeks. Can’t listen to Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartman, anyone. Time of day doesn’t matter, ProgressiveVoicesApp no longer works. I even deleted it and downloaded again. NOPE! Very disappointing.

You keep playing break audio over Thom’s show. It happens all the time and lasts a long time. It makes it impossible to listen. Are you asleep at the controls? It astounds me that you don’t have someone listening to ProgressiveVoicesApp who would catch that and fix it right away.

When ProgressiveVoicesApp plays while connected to WiFi or cellular it is fine. If you switch from one network to the other while it is playing, it cannot recover the stream. This is basic functionality that is missing from ProgressiveVoicesApp.

Also, no ability to rewind or fast forward. Most of the screen space is wasted on a schedule - which is incorrect.

Pathetic.

This last update was terrible. Will not continue to stream if you switch out of app or phone screen turns off. Please fix.

ProgressiveVoicesApp used to be the only app I relied on while driving. It no longer works with Bluetooth. It only works with wifi. I can’t use it anymore. I try accessing PV via the website and that doesn’t work anymore either.

I love ProgressiveVoicesApp and the shows, but the latest update has rendered it unusable. Audio will only play when the screen is on and open to ProgressiveVoicesApp . Background audio no longer works. Once that’s fixed, it’ll be great again. #MPVGA?

With the new update, Audio steam no longer works when app is minimized. I can no longer listen in the car while driving which is when I usually hear the shows. I love the content and disappointed that I can no longer listen.

ProgressiveVoicesApp streams my favorite progressive radio, has samples, podcast and original lefty content instead of extra ads and annoying PSAs.
What's not to love?
I'll tell you:
1. It just stops a lot
2. It freezes up
3. After you restart ProgressiveVoicesApp you often have to click start n stop the stream 2 to 4 times before it actually streams sound successfully. When you get into the show and the host pauses you have to check-- your app stopped again.

Fix it soon - please!

Great app to hear progressive radio shows but ProgressiveVoicesApp is unstable. It constantly cuts in and out and has to be restarted frequently. For my favorite hosts, I buy their podcasts if I want to hear them uninterrupted.

Selecting “on demand” broadcasts crashes ProgressiveVoicesApp every time. Audio stream is no longer available outside of ProgressiveVoicesApp (no background audio while app is minimized) to do other tasks. Please fix. This new version is broken in many ways.

So I listen to the AP to and from work with my navigation AP also up. Used to be able to keep map up and listen at the same time. Update quashed that. I have to have my navigation up so I have to listen to other programming now.

I listen to PV most of the day. I love the line up. However, once in a while I lose it and have to delete ProgressiveVoicesApp and reinstall it for it work again. Not the biggest deal in world but it can be a bit annoying. Other than that, it is a great Progressive channel. Keep worrying on it!

Like many say, I love the content. It’s just too bad it’s a crapshoot every time I open ProgressiveVoicesApp whether I’ll get to listen to actual content or an endless stream of ads. Sometimes it will even go to ads in the middle of a program and never return to the show. I wish the developers would respond to these reviews and fix the problem. I’m on iOS, fwiw.

Editing to update my review.

You’ve fixed it! Thank you for addressing the issues quickly!

The Progressive Voices app has worked reasonably well, or at least well enough, until recently. Now, it doesn’t work, period.

Two generations (i.e. a week or so) ago, I could at least get it to play, though the moment my phone went to sleep or I left ProgressiveVoicesApp , it’d stop. After the latest update, it won’t play at all. These seem like pretty basic functions that should have been tested and addressed before release.

I’ll keep watching for an update that fixes ProgressiveVoicesApp , but in the meantime, you’ve lost me. Not because I don’t like ProgressiveVoicesApp , but because it completely doesn’t work.

As the successor to Air America, Progressive Voices is the best place to get left-leaning views on American politics. ProgressiveVoicesApp works well as to stream shows live or (fewer shows) on demand. Since it isn't really a radio station, the shows are independently produced and contracted by PV for streaming. This is the reason for one of my two gripes about the service: Production quality varies wildly from program to program. Audio normalization is needed. My only other minor complaint is the interstitial programming. It can be repetitive.

I love it the more than the tune in app. Tune in has useless commercials for stuff I don’t have a good paying job or skills to pay for it. ProgressiveVoicesApp doesn’t have the advertising garbage every time you open it. The Tom Hartman show does have commercials but that’s for his show not ProgressiveVoicesApp is doing it.

This is a good app, and I like that it VoiceOver compatible. But, as I said in my title. It needs updated. It’s a-year-old, and it desperately needs to be updated.

Before Air America went under, I wanted an all-access subscription, but I couldn’t afford it, now I feel lucky. ProgressiveVoicesApp is nearly flawless & I appreciate that it’s easy to see since I’m legally blind. Thank you Progressive Voices!