WOWO News 4+

Since an update or 2 ago the audio stream plays automatically when you open the app. It can be embarrassingly annoying to have audio play when you really only just wanted to discreetly check the news headlines.

Update:
The 3.0 upgrade completely removed news and headlines from the app and now it is only about the audio stream. Removing about 1/2 of the usefulness of the app. Before I would use the app to read the headlines and would sometimes listen to the stream.

If you want to read WOWO news you have to use the web site and it is far from mobile friendly. The result is I will get much less of my news from WOWO now and will have to find another source to supplement what I would want to follow for unbiased reporting and local news when I don’t want audio but would rather read the news.

Also the audio stream auto starts. This still bothers me and I would prefer this to be an option… but I guess it’s a bit less of an issue if the app is only useful for listening to the audio stream now.

The purpose of an app is to perform the function it was assigned. All this app has to do is play WOWO and yet it will randomly stop playing. This requires the user to sporadically press the play button again over and over. You’ve got one job. Play the station. Fix this.

The app is garbage. Don’t bother downloading it; listen online through the website instead. The most recent update removed news stories from the app and instead redirects you to Facebook, etc. Any time you click the play button, it’ll launch an ad that you have to manually click out of after 10 seconds. If the stream gets interrupted from a phone call or something, you have to go back into the app to begin the stream again; the iPhone controls via the Lock Screen or control center straight up won’t work.