Good Lord! Thanks for this thread. In summary, they completely downgraded the app, when all they needed to do was change the logo on the old app. It was moving the furniture just to do it.
My complaints (in no particular order):
- They put the artist name and song title on the same line, so that when looking at either your phone's quick menu or your car's dash, you can't see the song title.
- Removal of the 15 second skip. Why? I don't know. Breaking what didn't need to be fixed in the first place.
- App glitches where if you change between channels. For example, I'll play Hits 1 when driving my daughters to school, then want to switch to Lithum or Classic Rewind, once I drop them off. But when I switch channels, the audio stays on Hits 1. "Bob Segar • Mainstreet" (or God forbid that it's a longer title or band name, like Creedence Clearwater Re, and the space for text ran out) while I'm still hearing some Lil Nas X song.
- Additionally, I'll stop the app to go into a meeting, and when returning, I pick a channel (ie. Faction Talk for Jim and Sam or Eddie Trunk) and the now playing pane just doesn't show up. I hear the audio, but I can't see information or scroll.
- (This one might be my lack of understanding of the new app) The old app had where I can save my favorites and sort them in a particular order. Now the closest I have is a list under library, and it adjusts based on what I last listened to. Again, something that they broke but didn't need fixing to begin with.
The only improvement I see in the new app is that when I go to a spot where there is low cell reception, my audio stops and waits until more of the stream downloads, then starts replaying. In contrast, the old app had that skipping back issue. I hated that once it happened a single time, it would just keep doing it. I had to close the old app and reopen it. I don't have to do that with the new app. I have to close and reopen the new app for other reasons.
