97.1 The Fan Hack 7.4.0 + Redeem Codes

I came to leave a review on how terrible this streaming app is, but a simple search shows that many people have already stated the obvious. A review from TWO YEARS AGO states the same issues that are STILL currently happening. I try to enjoy listening while doing yard work or other misc. tasks but become too frustrated with how often the service is dropped. In comparison, I have not had this issue with any other podcast or listening service. Only this one. Mowing the yard? How about listening to the same ads over and over and over again. Receive a phone call, even if you don’t answer it? Congrats, you get to listen to more ads before you get to listen to any content. Accidentally tap on something that has sound? More ads for you. Hit pause briefly to answer someone? Ads, ads, and more ads. Ironically here in central Ohio you’ll get to listen to many ads from… Michigan? If I could I would rate this with a -1 star. Going on 2 years of a pandemic where many people work from home and this app has consistently been terrible. The hosts have mentioned that the app has been updated multiple times to fix issues, yet none of the issues have been fixed. This is utterly pathetic and sad that a radio station takes such little pride in what they put out to their listeners. Do better!

I listened to the 97.1 stream directly from their webpage for months with the stream constantly dropping. If you get 30 minutes of uninterrupted content it’s been a great day of using their stream. I tried using TuneIn but the results were the same. So I decided to try this app thinking surely they wouldn’t create an app that doesn’t work. But alas I was wrong. This station’s streaming service is quite an embarrassment especially given the size of the company. This isn’t some startup. This is the largest station in central Ohio. “The Home of the Buckeyes”. I can’t imagine that the people in charge of the station would be ok with their over the air signal constantly being turned off, then restarting and playing ads over and over with little or no actual content being delivered. However, for whatever reason, this seems to be perfectly acceptable for their streaming services. From what I can gather from the comment section here and from the app ratings this has been an ongoing thing, not something new. Until the station takes more pride in the product it is providing, this issue will never be fixed. They really should be embarrassed.

You have to close the advertisement before it starts playing content. Which means that every time you stop playing, like if you have an alarm, sometimes Twitter will stop it, you have to open up the app just to hit closed on the advert, especially painful if you are driving.

I had people from Germany working with me for a month, I guess it’s always listening because it gave me an advertisement in German, which I had to look up what the German word for closed is for it to start playing the shows. I’m surprised I put up with it but I do like most of the shows of this station it’s just the app is garbage

I am a Buckeye who has lived far away from Columbus for years and I love keeping up with my team through The Fan radio shows. This app has always been terrible and seems to be getting worse! Constantly buffering, shutting off and then going to a commercial…over and over. I’ve reinstalled multiple times this week with no better luck. The shows are getting worse too — Bishop and FRIENDS — can you please shell out some money for some actual radio talent or athletes??? Bishop and his friends are neither. But that’s besides the point for this review. Please fix this!!!!!!

I like these apps designed for particular radio stations, but whoever created this one for 97.1 The Fan, is either not checking for errors or doesn’t care. The app freezes for no apparent reason, when you take it off pause you hear the “brought to you by” Commercial again, this happens when you pause it as well, I may just start listening to the podcast a day late to avoid the problems, but would prefer to listen live. This could be a real problem come Football season, as well as a current issue for people listening to Jackets or Crew games

I long to hear ted’s soft nasally voice whisper sweet sexy nothings into my moist ear holes. I’m not sure if it’s part of the program plan already but I think the addition of Paul Keels would be a fantastic piece for perverTED. But he’s not a co-host or even allowed to talk he’s just there to go mmmm and oh yesss whenever Predator Ted is being incredibly sexy. This would definitely add to the Lake Tahoe that is currently developing on top of my loins just thinking about it.

Like the title says, it’s a good upgrade over the previous version of the app. However, and I’m not sure if it’s relevant to this forum, the new update caused a bug when asking Alexa/smart speaker to “play 97.1 the fan.” I don’t think this is an error on Amazon’s side so I’m posting here. When going through the Alexa app and starting the fan manually, there are no issues— only when giving the voice command.

This app is constantly interrupted when streaming the local radio shows, with network connection to the station. I have other apps I stream music and podcasts from that never have an issue and can be played all day with out interruptions. For some reason it feels like every five minutes the app drops the stream and then can’t reconnect for 10 minuets and then plays for 5 seconds and drops out for another ten minuets. Terrible and would really appreciate it if the IT or app developers at the station or wherever could figure out the issue.

This should be embarrassing for such a large company. Like other reviewers, I have found the entire streaming service for this station almost entirely unlistenable. This direct and branded app is further punishment (at least in iOS) to would be consumers. Constant stream drops, local ads randomly playing over content... it’s an absolute mess. A dreadful mess. I caught A snippet of host B.Carp the other day complaining of his own experience with this app, only to have the stream dropped mid-story. By the time I got thru the startup ad (which always plays flawlessly), his story was over.

Love this app. Use it every day all day when I’m at work. One issue I have with the app is it won’t allow me to download the podcasts to listen offline on my phone. With my job, there are days that I work in an area that doesn’t get good credit service but I use to be able to listen to the shows from the day before even if I didn’t have cell service. For some reason that has changed. Would love to see that fixed