Review: Public Radio Player 3.0 for iOS is good, but not great
The Public Radio Player app for iPhone has been around long enough that it could almost be called “venerable”—the offering from PRX was one of the first iOS audio player apps to stream live radio, effectively turning the then-new iPhone into a broadcast tuner that could receive live, dynamic audio content from anywhere in the world. In fact, we reviewed an early version of the appin 2009.
Version 3.0 of the app, released in February, builds on all of Public Radio Player’s many demonstrated strengths from throughout the years: It remains one of the best aggregators of public radio content in the land—with more than 500 stations available for live streaming and more than 1,000 listen-on-demand programs—and the app keeps adding features to make it ever more useful. But two things plague the radio player: One old shortcoming, and that it mostly falls short when compared to similar rival apps.
Not that there’s nothing to love about the revamped app. The visual design has been updated—for greater contrast, the developers at PRX say, but the green-and-orange color palette gives off a funky vibe. And the listen-on-demand features of the app have become more podcast-like, letting users download episodes of shows to listen to later offline.
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