Poorly thought out - no advantage over free version.

I tested the free player for a day and decided I would see what significant bonus comes with the paid ($10) version. Basically nothing except it eliminates the nag screen to do the upgrade! No documentation anywhere!

I at least expected that it would import my favorites from the Lite version -NOT AVAILABLE. An hour of work wasted.

I expected it would let me select low-bit-rate streams as I have to pay for data on a 180 kb/s dsl line - I don’t want to waste my connectivity on having “high quality” streams for talk radio (NPR, BBC…), give me 32kb/s or below if available - NOT POSSIBLE.

I have to live with a lot of glitches, pings of 300-800 ms. and half a dozen IP changes a day from my third-world network provider. My Tuner gives up too easily in maintaining or reconnecting to the program I have selected. Give me a control to let it keep trying for my desired time-out.

I at least thought it would offer the option of a dock or menu bar icon - NOT. My menu bar is already packed with important things like Menu Meters, IP information, screen sharing, calendar etc. I don’t need to see a big chunk of menubar space wasted because MyTuner wants to tell me it is playing KQED. I know it is playing KQED.

There is no published privacy policy but when I start it up, Little Snitch wants to connect to dozens of advertising and analytics services. Why not tell me first what you want to know and why??

Overall, I am not impressed. I suppose I expect much better value for money. Why do code jockey app writers think they know what the customer wants? Do they ever ask what are the really important things in the real world - not on their developer campuses with gigabit internet and 10 second pings. I wish Radioshift were still an option.

TonyCSD about myTuner Radio Pro