The Great Courses Plus

The content from Wondrium is fantastic I have enjoyed it since the teaching company days. But an audio and video app that I so broken that the fundamental function of continuing where you left of 9 out of 10 times is missing on the landing page is unacceptable!

Am mainly using the Apple TV app and it leaves a lot to be desired. The audio synk drops at least 3-4 times per lecture, i.e. once every 10 minutes ish, requiring the lecture to be restarted. Sometimes when browsing the content and watching trailers, it seems that the app suddenly thinks the internet connection has changed to a dial up one, which is not the case, resulting in 144p video quality or similar.

I love the content and playing on desktop works great. However using the app together with Chromecast is very finicky. I often get the "streaming will use cellular data" regardless if I am ok wifi or not. If I temporarily pause and leave the app it often starts playing again automatically, sometimes on the TV and sometimes in the background of my phone (I hear the audio starts playing). Whenever I return to the app it resets and starts playing the episode from the complete begining (even if I was halfway through before). I don't even have to switch to another app, just locking the screen and unlocking (on my phone) is enough for a restart on the TV. And sometimes after locking the screen the audio starts playing on my phone simultaneously as on the TV. I didn't even know that was possible with the Chromecast protocol. Annoying.

After creating the account and setting up the subscription, it was impossible to start the free trial. ”Failed to purchase in AppStore”.

Awesome content, poor user experience

Great lectures. Perfect app. Works seamlessly. The lecture continues on any of my devices(iPad mini, iPhone, iPad pro) where I last finished. For ease of use you should download the lectures on your device.

The app is buggy and not optimized for the different Apple devices out here. I love the content of The Great Lectures, but the app needs many improvements.

app works nicely, never had any problems

But the app continues to let me know, every minute or so, that it is using cellular data. I don’t care. Just use it.

I love the content on this app. Everything I watched was informative. The app, however, was buggy. I would pause a video and the audio would continue to play. I would switch from one subject to another and have both audios playing simultaneously.