Radiooooo

Come on guys. This went from an app I recommended to every Spotify hating bin digger I knew to a never recommend pay to use, link to your social media customer data grab. Is there a way for you to make your money without f-ing the fan?

I loved this app. Then, today, listening to old French songs, the app suddenly changed appearance so that now the world map can’t be seen anymore and a country can’t be chosen, and it informs me that in the free version only 5 different countries are available and they’re chosen by the app through a random shuffle. Excuse me? There isn’t even a new update listed for today. It’s a real head scratcher. I would have given this app 5 stars but after this inexplicable random event I feel it barely deserves 1 star. In the meantime, it also deserves to be deleted, which I did.

at first i really enjoyed this app a few months ago until the recent updates, wdym i have to pay to go to a country? or pay to go to a different decade, the app is so useless now, theres barely anything you can do if youre not a paying user

Why do companies do this so often? Time to find a new site

definitely not the most user friendly music app, but its the BEST app ive found for discovering new music!!!!!

I can totally understand the need to earn money for your work. The thing is, the limited amount of samples a user can access without paying a monthly fee is a modest but good repository to explore. However, due to wanting everyone to pay a subscription fee, this app’s updates keep making it more and more annoying in order to coerce a subscription. Maybe I’m a different sort, but the way a developer will earn my subscription is by demonstrating the appeal of it through the limited free service offered. This app used to be entirely free, then a paid upgrade was added, then the subscription model was added, and along the way, what you got for free was further restricted. But even all of that was not a deal-breaker for me, as far as consideration. But the latest update has the subscription “BEG” window come up again and again and again, literally every time I make a choice, selection, country, style, decade, etc. every time I tap any of the specifics in order to narrow the choices, it comes up. This is not demonstrating the appeal, but rather demonstrating that they will resort to just plain nuisance in order to entice me. And that’s just not going to happen. Sorry, but if you’re the type to resort to that, then I would expect additional obnoxious behavior down the line, and so you’ve accomplished only to DETER me. I wish you would maybe augment the revenue with unobtrusive ad banners on the screen. Seems that style is becoming a thing of the past; being non-intrusive is just so much old-school, and not sufficiently aggravating. Never going to get a dime from me with that kind of approach.

As an design major student, I love the UI design so bad. It’s amazing and I definitely will recommend it to my friends.

Once good. Once free. All gone. Bye

New Update: I do not like the new map, it’s too tedious and requires lots of swiping as opposed to the old where one flick and I can go from North America to Russia. Additionally, the crossfade set to zero does not work. It still crossfades. 5 stars if these issues are corrected. Old update: I am liking the new update after having subscribed to the app for the past few months, but I do think the old map is a little easier to work with in some scenarios. The new rotational map benefits from more countries displayed but at the expense of speed. The old map is faster for cruising around and finding islands and easter eggs. Also, the old map fit the Radioooo brand better, imo. The rotational map could benefit from making it look more hand drawn. Also, I think the app will benefit from allowing us to select which map we want via the settings. Otherwise, with this new rotational map since it doesn’t feel as fun to use (more technical), I can’t help but think might as well bypass it entirely and provide a country list.

There is no free version, everything premium now.