ESPN New York

Let me just start by saying I love the app for its ability to connect me to all the local sports broadcasts (Knicks, Mets, etc). There’s a ton of content and it’s fairly straightforward to navigate. With that said, the way saved audio files autoplay is frustrating. They go in the order they were uploaded, so if I start listening to hour 1 of a show and it ends, the app will automatically load the last episode of yesterdays podcast instead of moving up to hour 2. Overall though, it’s not really detracting from the experience of the app. However, my second point is mainly where the -2 stars comes from. I’ve seen people talk about it on here in other reviews, and it doesn’t seem to want to get addressed for some reason, so hopefully if people keep bringing it up they’ll change it. My absolute biggest problem: the app will, at any point in time, at any moment, whether the app is open or closed, start playing the live 880AM broadcast. This occurs most often when I’m not even touching my phone, only to have it just randomly start playing the radio. I’ve had situations where the battery on my phone gets drained because I never opened the app, didn’t even use my phone for a few hours, but when I come back to my phone it’s been live-streaming the broadcast for 3+ hours on 0 volume, and my phones lost half its battery. It happens regularly, at least once a day, and there does not seem to be any way, either in the app or in apples settings, to turn this off. It is very irritating to wake up in the middle of the night to the sound of the app randomly broadcasting the live feed, or to have it start playing in the middle of a meeting at work. I’ve never had another app do something like this before. The developers absolutely need to address this issue, because it really is a great app, but this one problem is a huge pitfall.

This is a great app, but I’ve experienced one ongoing problem. It occasionally opens itself up and just starts playing. I’ve had it turn on in the middle of meetings with clients which is awkward. I’ve restarted my phone and uninstalled then reinstalled the app but both failed to be permanent solutions. I would rather have contacted the developer rather than writing a less than glowing review, but unfortunately you can’t (at least I couldn’t). If a developer reads this and has a solution, I would love to hear it. Listening on AM radio just doesn’t cut it.

I've got o admit that I was late to download the App because I assumed the AM radio signal would be a decent quality, but after struggling for about a week to listen to my favorite programs via the radio I fell in line and downloaded the APP and I've been happy ever since.