Classical Radio+

Too many stations play single movements of a major work. I don’t want to see one act of a Shakespeare play or a portion of a Van Gogh painting. I want the whole work, not a peep show! Other stations think movie music is the same genre. Still others have announcers who rattle on with what they know (or think they know) or worse, think they are entertainers who are adding to the experience. If the playlist has a truly good selection of music I could stand some commercials and even the absence of a line identifying the composer t and piece being played. A favorites list gives the listener a chance to throw the chaff to the wind and not have to go searching a long list.

Many, great choices for streaming classical music. However, it can not be turned off / shut down completely. The rectangle symbol for turning it off seems to only put it on hold. Closing down the app does not keeping from coming back on by itself, as happened a short while ago. After turning off the musing and closing the app, my iPhone’s control center shows it at the ready with the station and piece of music.

This is an updated review. See my original one below. This was a great app until the developer must have sold out to Google. Now there are unending ads that play over the music - completely ruining any listening experience. Just about every 5 minutes another ad plays on top of the music. And these are not short ads - some are a minute long. The app is total trash. Shame on you developer! Shame on you!!! I’d give this zero stars if I could. Better to just download individual PBS station apps. For many years I used to listen to some of the best publicly funded classical radio programming from all across the country. But I had to log onto each website to stream the audio. This app lets me have access to many of those very same channels like WCPE, WDAV, WKSU, WGUC, KAZU, and others. I’m in seventh heaven listening to classical music 24-7 thanks to this app.