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Of all the various Internet Radio apps I have tried, this one seems to provide the best sound quality. I primarily use the app in the car using the Android Auto interface which is functional, if not a tad tedius to get going (be good if it opened to your favourites, for example). My biggest gripe is that it's a shame it doesn't show album artwork for the current track. Other apps such as Replaio Radio manage it. Shame. Please add! Hence dropping a star...

My previous review gave this app three stars. Most of my complaints were about the interface, which they were in the process of changing any way. It looks better now that radio and podcasts are more separated. (It's still totally useless building podcasts into this app as there are much better apps dedicated to podcasts.) And radio favourites are easier to manage, but they could still use folders! But it's a good enough improvement to earn back a star. Except that it has also lost a star because there is no buffering. I have not been able to listen to any station without constant drop outs. There no longer seems to be an option that lets me set a high buffering time frame, nor can I choose a lower bitrate for any of these channels. I feel like these are two of the most basic options for a radio app, and this one now has neither. Still the best of a bad bunch of apps. Why is it so hard to build a decent radio app?

i am glad to see this app still kicking. a good place for me to keep coming back to one place that is a home to exactly one music and one podcast channel. while surely i maybe could find other ways to connect to them RN seems to at least try to stay afloat. it might be just ok, but at the same time it is the reason why I do not go beyond an occasional listening. after three years of posting a review about the navigational problem due to sorting of podcast episodes i see it is still the same.