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Since I don’t live in the Seattle or Bay Area, I have to resort to the app 🥲 However, I am impressed that I was able to keep my saved music after I switched to a newer iPhone! I love that I can email the DJ through the email button with ease. It is also great to be able to hear past shows for up to two weeks. Seriously love KEXP!

Live access to the real-time playlist? Access to archives? Links to the songs as they're played? KEXP has been my WFH companion for years and the app is almost perfect. My only critique: there's no option for Landscape mode for iPad users!

Excellent music selection, multiple genres, obscure, international - everything!

Very frustrated that after several years of requesting this fix, the developers have yet to address the inability of the user to view the standard info icons in the upper corners of the iPhone display. The KEXP app covers these areas. Please fix.

I love the content on KEXP, and for that reason am a heavy user of the streaming archive. However, I’ve recently (over the past couple weeks) experienced pervasive bugs with streaming. Case in Point: I queued up DJ Miss Ashley’s Sunday show just now. When it first started, it was just constant silence. So I clicked on the “jump to time” feature, and it displayed 2:55 (instead of 12:00). So I moved it back to 12:00… nothing. After queuing up another show and then retrying, it now says I’m listening to DJ Miss Ashley @ 12:00, but I’m in fact listening to the beginning of The Roadhouse. Please help! 🙏🏼 Until this is fixed, I’m going to have to give up on the App 😢

The IOS version of the app seems to have gone downhill. I have major issues trying to play shows in the archive. I finally gave up and started streaming via a browser on my iPhone. Very frustrating.

This app is a bit silly. The app randomly goes into commercials in the middle of a song. Super annoying. I stopped using the app as often. It ruins the experience.

Just barely better than using the iHeart Radio App. Not allowing landscape mode however, makes it unusable on my iPad.

y’all put your foot in this station 😭 is it weird to say I love you to a radio station that’s not in your area but UNDERSTANDS you in terms of finding gems from all around ~ 🙏🏽✨♥️

App stops playing music as soon as my screen shuts. So I can only listen while the app is open on my screen and my phone screen is on. Not sure if there is a workaround :/ Regardless, I LOVE KEXP

When using this app on the iPad the app orientation doesn’t rotate when you turn the iPad sideways. Is there a reason why this is not a feature in the app? my iPad is not set to rotation lock so I know that the app doesn’t support this. This seems like an oversight because most apps support screen rotation nowadays.

I love KEXP and have listened to them for almost a decade and have used their app without trouble for years every day. Recently updated the iOS and now it will only play music while the app is open. If I switch apps even if still running in the background the stream immediately pauses making it pretty much useless. I hope this is fixed soon as it is my most used app for music!

Why this is an issue is beyond me… not much of a problem on an iPhone but on an iPad this is a toughie. I will of course continue to use the app, but will mutter under my breath every time it opens.

iOs app very frustrating tbh. App resets and loses my place in the show. KEXP Android app much more functional.

if there is one thing i don’t like about this station, is that you don’t change music titles fast enough on the app, other then that no problem

Thank you so much for bringing the iPhone app out of the Dark Ages with some long-awaited updates. My rating is based predominantly on comparison to the Android app, which is more visually appealing and content-rich. The large album graphics on the Android are lovely. Speaking of the Android app, when will the song year be displayed in the iPhone app? I’m looking forward to more great work from you. Keep the updates coming!

Found this awesome station while visiting friends in Seattle. Grateful I can listen to archived shows since I’m not awake for one of them. This app needs a little TLC though! I hate when apps don’t remain where I last was when I exit them. I get into a particular show driving short distances and when I return, the app had taken me back to the current show. I then have no idea where I last was, so it is difficult to find where I was because I have no idea how far time-wise I was into a show. There should be an option where the app doesn’t revert to the main show. PLEASE fix this issue!

Huge fan of KEXP and I have been an Amplifier for many years. The app is overall great, but there are a few small improvements that could be made. (1) you can't skip ahead on archived shows. Well you can, but only in 5 minute increments expressed as the local time of broadcast. Local time is irrelevant to the user. It would make more sense to skip ahead in 30 sec increments (see the KCRW app). Even better would be the ability to skip ahead to a specific song. ( 2) if you close the app while listening to an archived show, you lose your place. Say I'm driving somewhere listening to the most recent Overnight Afrobeats but I don't finish the episode. When I'm driving home, I have to guess what time of the broadcast I left off at, in local time. This doesn't make sense from a user's perspective. (3) while streaming, the identification recording ("... an affiliate of the university of Washington...") will come on at random times, even during songs.

I have loved y'all for 30 years, but there are so many things that will interrupt audio briefly on my phone, that the intro that plays before the stream starts is starting to drive me nuts! Might be worth an experiment to see if membership adds are even affected if you don't play that every. single. time. ❤️

After the recent update the app won’t play old shows, especially if you jump to a time. Go ahead, try 11/5 Positive Vibrations, jump to 12:05. Negative vibrations mahn. Also, why not put a play clock on shows in the archive so you know where you left off?

Love the station and am annoyed with the app. I have to delete and download regularly. Why? Well today I have a blank screen when I went to listen to an archived show. Headers are there but nothing else populates (not the first time I’ve had this issue). I’ve also had to reinstall because it just stops streaming (had this happen more than once). Rebooting my phone does not resolve either of these issues, deleting the app and reinstalling does.

Love KEXP! App is pretty bad tho. Drops feed and skips constantly.

I never want to use this app because it takes five minutes to load and then I’m held hostage by an ad so when this app accidentally shuts down I have to go through this process all over again, missing whatever the DJ is saying or the song I was getting into. If you live in Seattle just use the radio or download a different radio app.

This station is one of the best. The app has some issues. The ad that plays when the stream starts sometimes goes on and on, basically letting me know I just started the stream that I just started. Any network interruptions will start the process all over again. The djs are great at station id, so that often is heard just after the streaming station id. That song playing when you open the app may be done by the time the stream ad ends, which is a great time for another station ad, right?

Well, it mostly plays the music. But the “now playing” display and playlist is always about a half hour off. I’ve reinstalled, gone back to the web interface, come back months later even on different devices — it is always wrong.

If I have the app open, the current song will show up on the playlist. But, if I don’t have the app open and looking at it, the songs aren’t listed. In other words, I have minutes/hours/days-long gaps in playlists. I’ve trying deleting and re-installing. No bueno.

Having moved away from Seattle, I’m especially appreciative that a KEXP app exists. I love the opportunity to listen live, favorite songs, and revisit shows in the archive. Unfortunately, I’ve recently had to uninstall the app. Initially, there were some minor hiccups with archive streams, like jumping back a few seconds in time, or playlist time not reflecting the pause state, but those weren’t a huge deal. Even losing all your saved favorites isn’t a huge deal, given the ability to email them to yourself periodically. More recently though, I noticed my iPhone battery draining rapidly. According to the phone’s battery stats, the KEXP app was using a 60% share of all apps, and almost entirely while in the background (not actively on-screen). Without the ability to disable the background refresh of the app itself, I wasn’t left with much of a choice. I’m hopeful this is something that can be addressed, because I really do enjoy the app. I’ve found other ways to stream KEXP live from my phone, but obviously none that allow for the real benefits like archive streaming.

I’ve listened for a number of years. For some reason they have trouble getting the clock right on the streaming archive. Then I can’t listen to tonight’s El Sonido recorded a few hours ago. But I recall them having these issues years ago on another platform.

Love that I can access show archives, but the app frequently glitches and jumps backwards a few seconds, so that it repeats what you’ve already heard. This does not happen if you access the show archive from the web address, only with the app. Have a very fast wifi connection and have tried multiple devices, happens with all.

I realize this is developed for ipads and iphones, but it would be nice if they could also tweak it for Mac M1 computers. I can't pause or play using the keyboard buttons, which is annoying since I have to unlock the screen if I want to stop the music. But otherwise it works fine!

Been a KEXP listener and supporter long before the iPhone came out. And drove old cars for so long CarPlay wasn’t on my radar. But now KEXP+CarPlay is a game changer. Love the station, love the app. 5 stars.

Just one recommendation -- I've been using this on the new M1 macbooks and it won't let me resize the window. Other than that, its everything I could hope for :)

I can’t believe I’m this excited about this update. But, Car Play!! I’ve been waiting a long time for this functionality. KEXP is a daily part of life, Car Play or not. Just so easy to listen in my car now. Great job!

Been using this app since it first came out and have experienced all the ups and downs. Feels like one step fwd and one back with every update. Mostly use it for playing the streaming archive. Whatever changed about a month ago makes the app completely useless for this use. Moved back to using the web-based streaming archive player. Not perfect but reliable. This shouldn’t be this hard.

I love the features but can’t deal with the amount much background battery usage.

KEXP is the greatest radio on the planet! I love finding new music on this station and really feel a sense of connection with the DJs. My main gripe with the app is that there is no easy way to sort favorite songs by date. For example, if I heard a song and wanted to show it to a friend later, sorting by date would make it really easy. Instead I end up forgetting. My favorites list has become a black hole of great songs, which is difficult to navigate when I'm trying to remember a song I heard last week. Sorting by date would dramatically improve this feature of the app, in my opinion. Otherwise it's great! Can't wait to listen to more music :) thanks for all of your hard work!

I use the app exclusively to favorite new songs I hear on KEXP but it’s wholly unuseful that my Favorites list is sorted alphabetically. If I’ve never heard the song or artist how am I supposed to go back and find it later that day in a long list? It would make so much more sense if it were sorted by “Most Recent”. Thanks!

I’m newer to the KEXP app/community and truly love the variety of shows available. I listen pretty much daily, and I’ve found I often need to go to the KEXP website to successfully play certain archived shows that don’t play at all on the app. I’ve tried restarting my phone and the app but often am unable to hear any music when playing some archived shows (from my phone directly or through a Bluetooth speaker that I thought might be the issue) or jumping a bit ahead in the playlist. I also make sure to go to the archived show directly versus playing the live set and switching to an archived show (which works occasionally). Won’t stop me from enjoying KEXP but would love to see more refining of the playback of archived shows if possible! 🙏🏽 Thanks!

I’ve been an amplifier for many years and really enjoy some of the shows, so I was excited to be able to specifically pick them out. But often when I open the app it’s just blank and no matter how many times I shutdown/reopen it won’t connect to anything. The jump to time is also frustrating as it is delayed and then fails to show the actual song that’s playing. Hoping it can be made functional, because it would be a great option!

Hi there! I love KEXP and the fact they have this up and running. My biggest concern is the playback, sometimes when going back to a show from the week prior the playback is actually from today’s date, not the show a week before. (Ie I want to listening to Oct 16, but get playback for Oct 23). It’s still good music but makes it harder to catch the overnight shows :(

Devoted KEXP listener and can’t thank you enough for the app. Would really really love the option to sort favorites by the date I added them to favorites. KEXP is amazing at introducing listeners to new music and adding songs to favorites to go back and look up later is so valuable. Thank you!

I love discovering new music and often get tired of the music I listen to. I love watching KEXP live performances of all of my favorite artists, so I decided to download this app, and check out the actual radio show and I LOVE IT! I’ve been working from home and I know no matter what time or what host is DJing, if I put it on, it’s gonna be great stuff! I’ve found a lot of new tunes :)

Would have given 5 stars if airplay was available (or intuitive)

Not sure how to explain the bad reviews but for great radio on a simple easy to use app this is perfect! Especially considering it is made by volunteers working for people powered radio.🤘 Superior to many other apps that no doubt had a lot more money thrown at them. Thank you KEXP!

This is the third year I’ve had this app and still... I can’t click on positive vibrations play list. Basically any play list or any live playlists. The app is super outdated and needs a complete redesign on the backend and for UX. Please update!!!!

we listen live daily mostly through the app so use it a ton. Love the real time playlist. Love archived shows but in the last year that has been hit or miss on when it works. When it does sort of work, sometimes you can’t jump to a time or it freezes. Not a big thing but feedback all the same. Maybe this is a big no, but have you thought of letting us link favorited songs onto a playlist? Often I Shazam a song you play and it goes directly to a Spotify playlist. Would be nice if liking a song on this app would contribute to a playlist as well. I know Spotify doesn’t pay artists well but I still end up supporting new music, in concert or buying merch or their vinyl. Also it would be nice not to hear the whole intro every single time I reopen the app, (like if I hit play again because for whatever number of reasons the music pauses, usually not intentionally. We must hear the same exact 20 second intro a dozen times a day (either mix it up or play a commercial or maybe give us a one minute grace period before making us hear it again) From a marketing standpoint I’m surprised the app isn’t used to promote local concert calendar or at the least list KEXP events. But maybe the app is ONLY dedicated to listening? Also, my kids say please put a concert ticket contest button on the app so they can push it when you do a ticket giveaway and it just automatically sends in our info, just like a text entry.

Runs for a few moments then stops. Takes 2-3 min to load station ID intro, but often takes up to five minutes before restarting archive jams.. This is with LTE and great signal! Sometimes never reloads on archive. Very frustrating after years a fighting this app it seemed better then got awful again. Why not just hire real professionals to build a world class app?

The streaming functionality is amazing, no problems there, but entire days and/or shows that appear in the web archive don’t appear at all in the app

KEXP is a truly fantastic radio station, and this review is geared towards the connectivity of the app, not a review of the station or it’s hosts: I can hardly get through a commute/bus ride from Lynnwood to Bellevue or Seattle without the app losing connection (and thus extensively pausing it even resetting) multiple times. Seems to happen most often when passing though those dead-zones that bisect 405 and I-5. Very aware that my carrier could be in part to blame here, but wanted to report the issue nonetheless.