ESPN Chicago 17+

The Good: It houses all of the ESPN Chicago podcasts plus the live radio feed. Controls are standard, simple, effective.

The Bad: It fails at one of the most basic features of any podcast app -- saving your place and picking up where you left off. All other podcast apps I’ve ever used over the years will automatically “bookmark” where you were on a particular podcast, so that if you change over to a different podcast and come back, it will have remembered your progress. Not this app. If you move off your podcast and come back to it, it starts from the beginning and you have to manually fast-forward and try to find where you left off. That blows.
Fix that deficiency and you have a solid app.

Bonus points if they would build in buffering for the live feed (like TuneIn), so that you can rewind up to 20-30 minutes of what you just listened to on the live broadcast.

I love ESPN 1000 and the personalities they have on the air, however this app and their constant changing of where they are posting their podcasts is about to make me give up on the whole channel.

The app doesn't save where you last listened to it, so if I make a phone call, push pause and open another app, receive a phone call, turn my car off, turn my headphones off or simply pause the show for over 15 seconds I NEED TO SPEND MINUTES SCROLLING THROUGH AN EPISODE TO FIND MY EXACT SPOT AGAIN. It's absolutely maddening. When I used to listen to the podcasts on the ESPN app, the Apple podcast app, or even Tune In Radio app I never had this problem.

This app also doesn't allow you to search more than 2 days in the past. So if you miss an episode or want to share a great interview with a friend.... good luck, ain't happening. Also the short show recap that tells what's happening in that particular hour isn't viewable beyond like 5 words.

Now that they've decided that this is the only place where they are going to host their podcasts, if the app isn't working (like right now) there's no way to catch up on the show or listen via another app.

I've been listening to ESPN 1000 for over 12 years. I live in Colorado so I rely on the podcasts from the day before to get my Chicago sports news, but if I have to keep putting up with this crappy app my years of being a loyal listener are about over. It's crap.

ESPN 1000 programming is great.

The app over the past few years has been pretty good but with some buffering on the live shows.

The latest version doesn’t auto start the live feed when I open the app.

Even worse, the app has been opening and automatically playing the live feed at random times when I’m not even touching my phone. That’s a real issue when I’m on a work call or am trying to sleep in the middle of the night.

The other issue last year was that sometimes I could listen to the White Sox live broadcasts, other times I couldn’t. Then there were cases where I could listen to several innings, the app would glitch and then when I would rejoin the broadcast, I would receive a message that I can’t listen to the live stream of the game. That was immediately after I was already listening to it.

Fix it!