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NYT Audio App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ AwfulAs a long time Audm subscriber, I am stunned by how this app has changed and turned into a marketing vehicle for all things NYTs with smatterings, if you can find them, of other offerings. I do not wish to listen to NYTs writers read their own stories. Most often they aren’t good narrators, which why should they be as they are reporters. Moreover, the app interface is just plain awful. It is difficult to easily access other magazine stories without having to navigate podcasts and a burdensome number of offerings from the NYTs, which I already subscribe to. I have other places I go for podcasts, I don’t want them on this app. I’m looking elsewhere for the kind of quality writing and professional readers that Audm provided. If I could give this app zero stars I would. The Audm experience wasn’t broken and didn’t need fixing. This app is broken and appears to be beyond fixing..Version: 1.6.0
✓ Bugs?I too am happy to see this app. It seems to have a few bugs. My earphone controls cannot pause it. It seems to draw down the battery. And now a mysterious white square appears in the regular nyt app, which when tapped starts playing the audio app. Nonetheless not a bad start. The more I use this app the less I like it. Do I swipe down, or right? How do I change the text size? Why does the Today tab have articles from a week ago? And how, dear god, do I turn off auto play?? Listen to the plug for the app on Hard Fork! They can’t find a single good thing to say about it! 🤣🤣🤣.Version: 1.5.1
✓ Not bad, but has accessibility issuesI was excited when this app was finally released. For the most part, it's decent, not great! I have 2 issues with the app. 1 issue is mostly my personal opinion, the other is actually a much larger concern. First, a lot of the audio are podcast audio that I can get anywhere else for free, without a NY Times subscription. With this app, not only does it require a subscription, but I still have to listen to the ads that usually go into the free podcast feeds. So why do I have to do this? I'm paying for a subscription but still have to hear ads. Second issue. There is an accessibility issue with the app that makes it much less pleasant to control audio playback. I've reached out to the support team, but unfortunately, my feedback was not taken as seriously as I hoped. I was given the usual, have I tried reinstalled the app, cleared the cache, etc etc, none of these have anything to do with accessibility. Obviously, I did not reach the right person. I'm hoping this review will reach someone who can pass it on to the people who understands. The lack of accessibility support is taking pleasure listening away from me. Please make it accessible..Version: 1.5.2
✓ Poorly developed so farJust keeps telling me that an error occurred. Also says to email “us” if this problem persists but there’s no indication what the email address might be..Version: 1.3.1
✓ Car playGood app missing car play.Version: 1.2.1
✓ Viva Audm, down with NYT audioI LOVED Audm and I mourn its loss/conversion to NYT Audio every single day. Why is the NYT Audio search interface so bad? Why can’t you filter stories by date or publication? Why is there not an accessible listening history or way to organize up-next stories in a queue with some design principles? Why do they make NYT journalists narrate their own stories when there are professional narrators who are pleasant to listen to that could do a better job? Why are there stories read by AI when I am paying a fee for this service? I appreciate that it’s hard out here in the media landscape but NYT has no business running a once-excellent app into the ground. Boo. I hate to lose audio narrations of some publications but I will probably switch to Apple News or curio soon so there’s at least a better interface..Version: 1.19.1
✓ Has destroyed a great appI really wish I I could like this app more. I am a big fan of the Daily and Ezra Klein, but I am deeply distressed at what is basically the destruction of AudM one of the best apps created. This app offers a small fraction of other publications compared to what AudM had offered. I can understand why The New York Times might want to buy AudM but I can’t understand why they had to destroy it. What the New York Times is offering as well as the original AudM could have existed independently of each other. This new app is extremely disappointing - most of its offerings do not compare in the variety or depth that AudM offered. I will continue to listen to The Daiky and Ezra Klein but have little use for the rest of this app. Hopefully someone else will create a new AudM..Version: 1.3.0
✓ Should sync across devicesI use this app both on my iPhone and my two iPads. I was surprised that the app doesn’t sync across the device. All devices are logged into the same account, but what I have in one devices queue doesn’t show up in the other. That’s not very convenient. Also there’s no handoff between devices. For example, I’m listening to this audio on my phone and I’m switching to my iPad as I settle down at my desk to work. I can’t have them app from the phone hand off to the iPad. This feature can be useful. Please implement both sync across devices and handoff..Version: 1.1.0
✓ Audm shut down for this?Audm had an amazing selection of articles, now this app is 90% NYT content and the other good publications have have three articles available at any one time. Thanks for ruining my favourite app..Version: 1.4.0
✓ Destroying My Favorite AppAudm is by far the app I use the most. I love being able to listen to articles from the New Yorker, NYRB, the Atlantic, The Atavistic, London Review of Books, Texas Monthly, The Times Literary Supplement and so many others on my daily walks and when I drive. None of these are listed as publishing partners in the new app. Instead the app is pushing all sorts of podcasts I have no interest in. I can get The NY Times podcasts I want on the Apple app, namely The Daily, occasionally Ezra Klein, Matter of Opinion and The Run Up. But Audm is where I do my non-music listening and without being able to hear articles from publications some of which I don’t subscribe to will be a real loss. What was the point of the NYT buying a truly great app in order to destroy it? As an NYT print subscriber I get the new app free but if all of that Audm content doesn’t transfer I will cancel my subscription and listen to my usual NYT apps as I always have on Apple’s podcast app. Serial and The Athletic are a disincentive to using the new app as far as I am concerned, just so much clutter. I will also be losing valuable reading time, since I will now have to read all of The New Yorker instead of being able to choose on Mondays which articles to read and which to listen to..Version: 1.1.0
✓ Tremendous misstepI am deeply disappointed that the NYT has rolled out this half-baked, clunky design with the expectation that users will spend nearly as much time in it as they did in Audm. It is a tremendous, unnecessary misstep that feels designed by a committee of product managers and execs to juice users. NYT, I like your stories, but I don’t want to be juiced. Especially when you reduce the publication catalogue to half of what it used to be thinking no one would notice? The strength of the Audm app was that it was lightweight and easy to use. I could easily manage a queue, switch between reading and listening, and refine a search by authors, narrators, publications, etc. These features are either no longer available or obscured in the NYT Audio app’s design. As a user, I am often disoriented as to where I am in the app, and the search/filter features are lacking. It feels like too much is stuffed in here. The typical Audm user wants to listen to articles read by professional narrators, not random podcasts or stories recorded on laptop microphones. (The latter especially feels like a naked cost-cutting measure.) I am regularly stepping over the content I don’t care about to get to stories. I would encourage the product team responsible for this monster to really do some reflection. Actually talk to users, then use those conversations to inform the experience. This is not a sustainable offering..Version: 1.4.0
✓ Doesn’t workThe interface looks gorgeous and the idea is great but it doesn’t work more often than it does, which is truly unacceptable for a paid app coming from the NYT..Version: 1.4.0
✓ This app is glitchy and has a terrible flawWhenever iOS updates this app freezes and crashes. To resolve this the user must uninstall and then reinstall the app. However this reveals the terrible and asinine flaw of the app. The users entire listening history is deleted/erased when you uninstall and reinstall the app. You will no longer have the listening history of whichever and however many episodes/stories you have previously listened to. This will result in a frustrating and time wasting endeavor of marking as played any and all previously listened to episodes/stories. Additionally the app is needlessly slow in its UI response reflecting a design flaw in the underlying structure. This makes the app slow and poorly responsive. These are truly disconcerting and disruptive issues that significantly degrade the app experience..Version: 1.19.2
✓ Started great, content changed thoughI was an avid listener on the app, AUDM. It contains articles from The, Atlantic, Propublica, etc. then the New York Times bought it. I was excited to add New York Times articles to the mix. Slowly, Publications that I loved, like the Atlantic left. Now, all of the articles outside of the New York Times magazine are read by their authors. Let me say this, there is a reason certain people are writers, and not speakers, some of the articles were impossible to listen to because of the odd intonations of the writers. It also felt like I was listening to “millennials” (I am an X-ennial) casually talk about an article they had written. Off to Curio..Version: 1.7.1
✓ SearchI really like the idea of the app, but I have two issues. The first is that search sorting/filtering is non existent or difficult to find. I really enjoy following the economy and obviously I’d like to see the most recent articles at the top of the search results. I can’t find any sorting options on search, or any real understanding of how you render search results. Makes it really hard to find the most recent articles you offer. Second is more narrated stories, but I imagine that comes with time.Version: 1.7.0
✓ Why only in this app?I love NYT in general. I’m a subscriber. I listen to The Daily — well, daily. I’m liking the new Headlines podcast too. But as a subscriber, it pisses me off that I am forced to use this app to get some of the podcasts. NYT is not the ONLY thing I listen to. I prefer the Overcast app which has just the listening control I want and allows me to set up my own play list where I select the episodes and order I want to listen from a variety of podcast sources according to my own priorities, not a single source with a priority chosen by your editors. I know I could manually jump around inside this app and between apps, but that’s not what I want to do! I set up my daily list and never have to switch apps all day. This is my first significant disappointment with NYT..Version: 1.1.0
✓ Can’t log inTapping the log in button multiple times and nothing happens. Have deleted the app and reinstalled, but nothing..Version: 1.8.0
✓ Three big problems with this appThere are three big problems with this app. First, I am not able to log on. As a longtime NYT subscriber, my user ID predates a requirement that it be an email address, but this app requires that my ID be an email address. If I put my actual ID in, the app rejects it. If I put in my email address as my ID (which the NYT should be able to correlate with my account), the app doesn’t recognize my password. Second, this app is not iPad compatible. Using an iPnone only app on an iPad is a terrible user experience. How hard is it to provide a user interface suitable for iPads? Third: Why?? Why does every media outlet create yet another app to clutter up my app catalog when Apple already provides a perfectly good podcat app? There is no good reason I can find to use NYT specific apps. The Safari browser gives a better experience reading the news (with better accessibility features) than the NYT provides with its app, and I am pretty sure NYT hasn’t improved upon Apple’s podcast app woth this app (although for reasons discussed above I haven’t even been able to log on). This is an app nobody needs that was created for no good reason..Version: 1.3.1
✓ Long form audio journalism is deadThe NYT app is ok as a new app. Too much of a built-by-committee feel, but ok. A tip o’ the hat to the coders who had to harness the multiple agendas of the committee. As a replacement for the brilliant Audm app, though, it’s miserable because the extensive long form content, consistently professional narration, and scrolling text features are gone. (I especially miss the scrolling text, where I could glance at the screen to see a name spelling or to back up and reread a compelling paragraph along with audio. Great for remembering and digesting more complex ideas, easily ignored if wanted to.) I subscribed to and gave gift subscriptions to Audm for the long form journalism it offered. NYT Audio is short on long and long on amateur narration. It is a different thing altogether. Can’t you offer both? I have the NYT audio app on my phone because it is included with my all access subscription. It’s not something I would otherwise purchase, not because it’s bad, but because it is a completely different product than Audm..Version: 1.7.1
✓ Downloads Delete Every DayWhy don’t the downloads stay downloaded?? They don’t delete everyday and I can’t listen when not on wifi a day after. So dumb..Version: 1.10.2
✓ Good start but needs navigation improvementI like the idea of it but it’s frustrating to use. The interface is too graphical, so headlines get cut off and it’s hard to figure out what the article is about. It lacks the ease of organization of the regular paper - no organization by category or section. And it lacks something I think the Post does well, which is to have the articles read aloud by the phone - perfect for when you are out walking or can’t stare at the screen. I appreciate the original content but it’s presented in a cluttered and confused way..Version: 1.4.0
✓ Bothersome bugI think this will be a great app. The quality of its audio, production, and content is superb. But there is a bug, where I cannot stop and start the audio using my earbuds button. And because I am listening in a noisy world, this makes the app unusable for me. I’m strongly hoping this gets fixed soon. Thank you..Version: 1.8.0
✓ Poor replacement for AudmTrash. I gave it another chance but it's existence is redundant. Why pay for content with ads? Ridiculous. Unsubscribed and deleted. Previous review: Since this service was sold as the replacement of Audm, let's compare. No more read-along feature. There are links to websites of non-NYT content, it no longer scrolls to match making the feature effectively non existent. This had been such a revolutionary feature on Audm that I'm stunned they scrapped it, even for their own content. Not that I read along the entire article, but if, for instance, there was a person referenced in the article that you wanted to pause and look up, you could effortlessly see how it was spelled. One of a dozen reasons I loved this feature. Also there is a dearth of professionally read articles in NYT Audio; a good writer is seldom a good narrator. This really undercuts the value of the articles themselves, but makes the app very very unappealing. By far my biggest complaint is the lack of content. It looks like there are many options, but I would estimate it to be less than half of Audm of a few months ago. Audm had been my absolute favorite app on my phone. I'll give NYT Audio another month to see if they can get it together before I cancel my subscription. What a disappointment..Version: 1.6.0
✓ Disappointing replacement for AudmI am a regular NYT subscriber, but Audm was my favorite app for listening to articles. It had a diversity of content paired with an easy to use, attractive, clean interface. I agree with the other reviewers who find the NYT Audio app cluttered, difficult to navigate, and pushing stories in which I’m not interested. My pet peeve is how unintuitive it is to build your queue from a diverse range of publications and then how unintuitive it is to then manage that queue as you’re listening. Why is it not possible to delete the article you’re currently listening to? Or to easily skip to the next one? I don’t want to suddenly listen to stories about murder while I’m making breakfast with my young kids! I was able to find how to activate other publications, but it’s so hard to find articles from them, and it was so unintuitive that I understand other reviewers’ frustration. Some of my favorite publications from Audm are no longer available in this app, which is by far the biggest loss. One of the things I liked the least about NYT articles read, even when in Audm, was the NYT habit of having their reporters read their own articles. Professional voice work is a job for a reason. I would happily go back to paying separately for Audm..Version: 1.3.0
✓ TimelinesMost audio is done late in th day or a day late..Version: 1.5.1
✓ Hope it succeedsSome design changes are needed, but the content is great. I added another star for Julia Whelan. 5 stars when synchronizing between devices occurs. Plus "downloading last 3 episodes" actually works; rather than downloading everything forever. NYT is 20 yrs behind; podcasting, & had AUDM surveys for 2 yrs. And, now surveys for us paid-to-use guinea pigs. Survey your geeks, & make them use this app. But, I am hopeful. I love the NYT & The Athletic; no matter how many employee cuts, plus ads..Version: 1.7.1
✓ Frozen on the very first pageIPhone 15 Pro, installed, subscribed, but frozen on the very first page. i rebooted, restarted and still frozen like a snowman..Version: 1.15.0
✓ The story intros are weird.I just got through listening to a 5 min intro from the author of a story about Karen Bass. The piece itself is about 9 min long. Why are we doing this? If it needs this much time to set up an article…it sounds like the article isn’t doing its job. I find it very odd to listen to someone talk, in natural and conversational language, to jump into a much more stiff version of essentially the same content. Is there a reason for this format? Imagine if every NYT print article was preceded by four paragraphs of the author casually summarizing the piece before dropping the big SAT words in the article. Do one of the other: either have these writers just converse about the thing they’re interested in like they would in a podcast…or present their writing as audio..Version: 1.20.0
✓ Still glitzy and glitchy.A lot of thought and care has been put into making this app aesthetically distinctive. I love the use of high-quality photography alongside stories. Outside of that, the app still has issues. Audio playback is prone to bugs. Sometimes the player loses track of what story you were listening to and you’re unable to pause and resume where you left off. Often the app will be unable to play audio in the background. The newly added CarPlay support might be one of the worst I’ve ever seen (very limited ability to browse catalog and frequently fails to play audio in the background). More often than not you cannot start listening from CarPlay and must use your phone. I don’t really understand why this app exists beyond giving me access to “The Headlines” podcast. If you’re going to make a dedicated audio app I would expect to see features that could only be delivered through an app that we wouldn’t get through RSS or Apple Podcasts. I would love to see Spatial Audio and the ability to set daily playlist preferences..Version: 1.19.2
✓ Audm was betterThe NY Times recently folded Audm (which it owns) into its own audio app. That was unfortunate because Audm offered far more content and was easier to use. The number of publications dropped from 27 at Audm (of which 6 were NYT content) to 12 at NYT Audio (where 3 are NYT content). Publications that were dropped include The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, New Republic, NY Review of Books, New Yorker and Vanity Fair, among many others. That serious erodes the value of what had been the internet’s best audio magazine app. Presumably those publications would not agree to provide their content under the NY Times banner. Specific gripes: The list of publications does not indicate which ones are already being followed, without clicking on each. The database of articles appears on two tabs (Today and Discover), whereas they could be combined into one simplified tab. The queue of articles cannot be sorted (e.g., oldest date first). Articles in the queue can be deleted with a simple swipe, except for the one you are listening to. Most maddeningly, it will not stop at the end of an article, but continues onto the next one. The app developers might rethink what was lost in the transition. The idea of listening to magazine articles is terrific, and I will use the NYT’s audio app, but now need to search elsewhere to find the publications that no longer participate—which defeats the concept of a single audio magazine app..Version: 1.3.1
✓ Extremely disappointing “replacement“ for AudmAudm was an exceptional app, well designed with tons of amazing content, NYT Audio is cluttered and mediocre, lacking a lot of the great publications that were available on Audm, pushing their own content. In addition, Audm had transcriptions of all the articles so you could easily switch from reading to listening, or grab a quote from the article, which was one of my favorite features. As a software engineer, the design and implementation of features in this app is just shockingly, similar to the NYT app. Feels cheap and clickbaity, not like a media powerhouse. I assume that’s out of the hands of the engineers and pushed by higher ups driven by revenue incentives. I was trying to stay optimistic and give it a real chance but it’s pretty tragic altogether..Version: 1.3.1
✓ Perfect until it started crashingJust in the last week the app has started to crash, and I’ve noticed my iPhone hearing up significantly while the app is running. At first I thought it wasn’t updated, but it is. Then I thought I didn’t have enough space to run it despite have 20+ GB free, so I freed up even more space. I deleted and downloaded the app again, restarted my phone, and checked online for any tips. The overheating aspect is very concerning, and if it continues unfortunately I’ll have to unsubscribe to NYT because I only use my subscription for the audio. Overheating like that will cut into the life of my phone..Version: 1.19.1
✓ The app keeps crashingThe content is great but the app keeps crashing..Version: 1.1.0
✓ Cool app but crashes my iPhone11The app worked for the first month or so absolutely fine, but then it started heating up my phone and crashing every time is listen to something on there. Also, I miss Audm so much..Version: 1.6.2
✓ Needs more curation optionsLove the content but finding the interface difficult. Perhaps there are settings I haven’t been able to find (which in itself indicates a problem) but for This American Life it’s hard to navigate episodes - I can’t choose for played episodes to be hidden, I can’t sort by date, episode numbers aren’t shown so I don’t know where I was up to from listening on other apps in the past. I can’t search for topics or dates or contributors. Hopefully some of these features will be added in future updates! Please keep up the great work on the content. 😊 I haven’t tried other shows within the app so don’t know if they all have the same lack of options..Version: 1.2.0
✓ GreatIs excellent but really need CarPlay integration..Version: 1.2.0
✓ Great content terrible appObliterated my carefully rationed data. Despite downloading episodes, if data is turned on, it streams the content at ~2 GB/10 minutes. Additionally, you can’t open the app or navigate it for more than 60 seconds with having data on or a Wi-Fi connection. Desperately needs an offline mode. Finally getting around to complaining about it because it glitched after the latest update and ate through all of my remaining data for the month while I listened to “downloaded” episodes yesterday on my drive to work, despite having turned it off in my settings AND the app yelling at me the whole time that I needed to reconnect to Wi-Fi..Version: 1.5.1
✓ Buggy and ConfusingI enjoy the access to content I would otherwise not have or take the time to read so I listen instead. The podcasts I can get elsewhere more easily with a better app. I get emails suggesting things I might want to listen to, but it’s not always easy to find them in the app. Today my downloads are all “pending”. Not sure why. Sometimes I go for a walk only to discover I have zero downloads, but when I get home I have a long list of downloads. Where did they go? The content UI is overly complicated. Even though I’ve been using it a while I still have a hard time finding articles..Version: 1.7.1
✓ Yeah, still all the same adsMeg Greer reviewed this app with a joyous "No ads!" And I naturally expected that too. After all, the app is only for subscribers, right? So doesn't that mean that finally, we can get The Daily without daily ads? Right? RIIIGHT??? But in fact, it means no such thing. And if I can't get The Daily without ads, even though I'm a NYT subscriber, what's the benefit of setting up a whole different podcast app? The one I already have has a more natural feel. This one requires hunting for the inexplicably hidden fast-forward button. Why bother? I'd rather stick with the podcast app I know and have loved for years. If nothing else, I know well where to find its fast-forward button. Somebody let me know if NYT ever makes ad-free episodes available to subscribers, as other podcasts have done for years. (Hey, NYT, go ask NPR to show you how it's done.) Until then, I'm not a fan of the app, which is clunky and difficult and offers me no benefit over the podcast app I already know..Version: 1.1.0
✓ AUDM was 100X betterI only paid for this because it was, frankly misleadingly, implied that those of us who were subscribed to AUDM would be transitioned into it as a replacement of and improvement over AUDM. It is not even close. It’s not even similar! It is clumsy to navigate with barely any long form articles, and in fact none whatsoever from some key publications that sold me on AUDM in the first place. This is not the “portal to audio journalism” I’ve seen it described as because that indicates an entryway through which one can go deeper and explore a world of similar content. Instead, it’s just all (confusing) doors and no hallways, no rooms, no content. Hugely disappointing..Version: 1.5.1
✓ Inferior to AudmThe NYTimes owned and then discontinued a much better app called Audm and replaced it with this turkey. Audm had content from a vast array of publications that could not be found together anywhere else. This app adds very little for someone who is already a NYT subscriber, and I don’t need one more way to listen to This American Life. It’s really annoying that the NYTimes would take great content away from their Audm subscribers just so they can corner the podcast market. It’s a sad story that has happened before in other industries, but I thought the NYTimes cared about making great journalism available to the public. I was wrong..Version: 1.4.0
✓ Good idea, buggy execution - updatedSomehow it’s even more broken after the last update. Unusable. Nice layout, clean look, and good curation (though not updated as often as I’d like - you’ll see the same few 6 minute shorts from this American life featured for 2+ weeks) but I run into experience breaking bugs daily. Some files will be unplayable for no reason. Sometimes this will happen in the middle of playback. You can create a queue for listening, but every so often, it’ll just get dumped with no easy way to find that stuff. Downloads are shaky. Sometimes they work. Often not. AirPod control integration doesn’t really work. If you like to skip forward with a double tap of your AirPod, sorry, you can’t. If you’re on a run or doing the dishes, you’re going to have to fish around for your phone and unlock it to advance - something that many other audio apps have figured out as a matter of course. I’d like to support this because of the curated content but it doesn’t offer a good alternative to the official podcasts app with this buggy experience..Version: 1.6.0
✓ So little content!It’s a shame Audm folded into this because it pales in comparison. There are so few articles and it doesn’t update nearly enough..Version: 1.6.0
✓ Won't launch offlineIt's ok but what's the point of downloads if the app won't launch when offline?.Version: 1.1.0
✓ Can’t loginDon’t let you login, trapped all the buttons but none work. No use.Version: 1.10.0
✓ Please expand magazine standPlease run more Longform articles from non NYT or NYT magazine.Version: 1.5.1
✓ Why does this app even exit?Why does the New York Times insist on a fragmented media experience for their subscribers? Their podcasts can be consumed in my podcast player of choice so why do I need a NYT app to listen? Why are their article audio versions hard to hear? The Washington Post has, for quite a while, put audio playing links in the web pages right with the story. Why do I need to leave my web experience to go find the associated audio article? That’s not how I consume the news. On my social media of choice, I find links to articles. If they’re Washington Post articles I can easily choose to read or listen. If they’re New York Times links I can read with no choice to listen unless I load this app and search for the article. Please put links on your web pages and ditch this fragmented media app..Version: 1.9.0
✓ Can’t use while commuting or exercisingRather than have all my podcasts in one, commuter friendly spot, the NYT decided to separate its podcasts into a subpar platform I can only use at home. There’s no Apple CarPlay support so I have to choose between being safe or listening to their podcasts since I’d have to take my eyes off the road to navigate their less than intuitive app while driving. There’s also no Apple Watch support so I can’t listen to their podcasts while I’m exercising. Not really sure what they were thinking by limiting how people can listen to their podcasts..Version: 1.2.1
✓ App only plays when phones is awakeWhen my phone goes to sleep or I switch out of the app, play stops..Version: 1.1.0
✓ Disappointed Audm SubscriberI’ve been a devout subscriber to Audm for years. Being able to listen to a diversity of publishers in the car has been a great pleasure. And seeing the continuous improvement of the user interface really made me love the app. With the Audm app being phased out and moved to the NYT app, I got onto the NYT app for the first time. Immediately I was disappointed to see their lack of available articles. Somehow a Vanity Fair article I was midway through listening to on Audm is not available on the NYT app. While I was excited at first to see the other content that was being provided, the reality is it mostly distracts from the articles that I had originally subscribed to hear. All the podcast and curated topics just make the articles hard to find. For now I’ll be unsubscribing and hoping an app will come that can provide the service I loved on Audm..Version: 1.4.0
✓ Ads injected now?!If I’m paying for the content why am I forced to now listen to advertisements before each article? I cannot in good conscience renew my subscription if ads are now part of this product..Version: 1.19.2
✓ Love the content but the app has one major flaw……it’s not running in background. Unlike all my other music or podcast apps, NYT Audio stops playing once the screen on my iPhone turns off with auto-lock. I listen a lot to music or podcasts with my headphones on when I go to bed. In order for the app to not stop playing when it goes into Auto-Lock of iOS, I need to change it to “never”. I tend to forget changing it back to my usual “2 minutes” which is a security risk. This should be an easy change and I don’t see a reason for the app not playing in background..Version: 1.13.0
✓ A disappointing startI was excited to download this having heard an advertisement on a podcast that I enjoy. I think the biggest disappointment is that it does not pair with Apple Car Play. I do most of my listening in the car during my commute. With this app I have to use my phone to get to the next segment. The segments are mostly short so I have to do this a lot. Is also like to see the daily “Great Reads” offered in audio which I haven’t found yet. The content offerings are a little sparse so far. I hope they build this out some, and pair it with Apple Car Play..Version: 1.3.1
✓ Queue does not workFive-star content deserves better than a ½-star app. When I create a queue, I expect that when one story finishes playing, the app will move on to the next one in the queue. Not so with NYT Audio — it just plays whatever it wants and completely ignores what I have queued up. Very frustrating. Add to that the difficulty of finding current, relevant news stories within the app’s byzantine structure and you come out with an unpleasant exercise in frustration and confusion. If not for the exclusive content, I would delete this app and go back to Apple Podcasts..Version: 1.18.1
✓ CarPlayIt doesn’t seem to work with CarPlay.Version: 1.2.0
✓ Mourning the. death of AudmWhen I found Audm it was like a dream come true, being able to listen to all the long form articles in my favorite publications by wonderful narrators. The content was vast and actually dated back to 2016 when they started the company. So you could literally catch up on years of articles, just type in a search for what interested you and a huge swath of articles would appear. All you had to do was download and listen. It was easy to use and contained for example all of the New Yorker articles each week including the book reviews. By contrast The NY Times Audio has cut the content drastically. You get one Ny Times article for the week, many of the other publications are no longer listed and the ones that are have very little available. What you do get is lots of NY Times content pushed on you read by editors not professionals. This seems like a cost cutting measure because narrators reading more content is more $$. Personally I find the app hard to navigate, with little to offer. I don’t need their podcasts I just want my articles and that wonderful cache of reading that was available on Audm. What will they do with all of that? It’s such a treasure. I used to be a positive NY Times subscriber but if it weren’t for the cooking app I would cancel..Version: 1.5.2
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