Vermont Public 4+
Vermont Public Radio
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
The Vermont Public App:
The Vermont Public app allows you to listen and watch Vermont Public, and view the program schedule all at once! You can explore and listen to on demand content whenever you want, share stories with your friends and wake up to Vermont Public with the alarm clock!
Live Streaming
• DVR-like controls (pause, rewind, and fast forward). You can pause the live stream to have a conversation and pick up right where you left off! Or rewind to catch a comment you just missed!
• Listen and watch live streams from Vermont Public even while traveling! Start the app and your favorite station starts playing.
• Integrated program schedules for Vermont Public streams!
• One click stream switching – flip over to the program you noticed on another stream with a single click.
• Listen to Vermont Public in the background while browsing the web or catching up on your emails!
On Demand
• Access the Vermont Public's past programs easily and quickly.
• DVR-like controls. Pause, rewind and fast forward your program with ease.
• When listening to programs, individual segments (when available) are listed so you can review and choose one or listen to the entire program.
• The Vermont Public app displays the web page associated with the program or program segment you are listening to on demand so you can explore for more information.
Additional features
• Easily share stories and programs with family and friends via the “Share” button.
• A built in Sleep Timer and Alarm Clock allows you to go to sleep and wake up to your favorite station.
• Save what you were listening to (Live or On Demand) so you can replay, follow-up, or share it later by simply clicking “Bookmark”.
• Easy access to school closings, weather and other favorite features.
• Vastly improved in-app reading experience.
Vermont Public is Vermont’s unified public media organization, serving the community with trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and diverse educational programming. Formerly Vermont Public Radio and Vermont PBS, Vermont Public also provides local access to national programming from NPR and PBS. Its statewide radio and TV networks reach all of Vermont, as well as parts of New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts and Quebec, Canada. More information about programs, stations, services, and ways to support is available at vermontpublic.org.
What’s New
Version 4.6.30
Performance enhancements and bug fixes.
Your feedback helps us make our app better for everyone. Please send us your suggestions via the "Settings and Help" section of the app!
Ratings and Reviews
Works very well now
The bugs have been worked out over the last year or two, the app runs flawlessly now. The FM radio broadcast of VPR is spotty in our location, and streaming on archaic DSL was unreliable. High speed EC fiber and a new cell tower are welcome arrivals in our area of rural Central Vermont! Streaming VPR has now released us from playing ripped or downloaded music from a hard drive.
Wish there was more bluegrass and folk and other genres included in the program of the VPR Replay stream, and more vocal music on VPR Classical.
App is almost unusable, stops too often
Unfortunately, the latest release of this app is, if anything, worse for rural users than previous versions.. The app’s Home Screen has so many dense graphics on it that it takes too long to load. Even worse, the app will not play the stream until all the graphics finish loading. The app should be designed to work in Vermont where cellular and WiFi signals vary greatly in strength and availability. It should take the user’s bandwidth into account when it loads screens and keep track of when it has played the introductory sponsor list so it does not play them every few minutes as it switches bandwidth sources. Too bad the app was not developed by one of the many Vermont based mobile developers who know about Vermont’s internet connection issues.
Another big failure in this app is when it loses whatever signal it is using, it gives up and requires the user to hit the play button again. The right way to implement the app is to have it retry until it gets reconnected again.
Test the app everywhere it is going to be used instead of in a development lab with high speed Internet.
All good
I love to stay connected through VPR. My stereo antennae leaves a lot to be desired so I often switch from stereo to streaming device. I usually just listen live, but have been able to access programs that I missed. I do sometimes stick my phone in my pocket and do my field work with VPR streaming. The only way I lose the stream is when I use my phone as a phone.
App Privacy
The developer, Vermont Public Radio, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Search History
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Vermont Public Radio
- Size
- 30.9 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2019 Sky Blue Technologies Inc.
- Price
- Free