Get this, if you purchase something from them, you cant download it to the app. I can download it online, so I know they are okay with me having something I purchased, but I have to SUBSCRIBE to access something I already paid for on the app. That is GREEDY and a bad user experience! Pixel XL. Crashes all the time. Doesn't always download to playlist. Stops playing in the middle of a song. How can something with a subscription model be this bad.
Reviews for LivePhish
Horrible Chromecast support. Starts a webcast stream at the beginning EVERY time...which sucks b/c it never actually plays through. Constant crashes, so you have start from the opener even if you are way into set 2. No playback controls at all during a cast. Just ability to cast from the beginning. Have to sit here next to my huge tv and awesome sound watching a show I paid for on my phone. Really weak app...which is so, so disappointing.
I want to love the LivePhish app but it has quite a few problems as a music player. It constantly loses track of what was previously playing, a big problem if you're listening to a jam in the car or gym and want to pick up where you left off later. It also lacks Android Auto support so when i turn on my car other music players dominate and push LivePhish away until I manually stop them and restart LivePhish. Definitely not the undistracted experience you want while driving.
Used to work for me, no longer does, lack of support. Every time I try to login I get the error "The livephish app is currently offline for maintenance. Please check back later." This happens continuously, to me it seems it's a problem with the app. Login to the website using a browser, no issues. Tried reaching out to their support team, provided all details, no response. While I'm not a livephish subscriber I have paid for several streams and would like to continue using the app.
I really love this app, can never get enough Phish! But I've noticed that the app will randomly stop playing or go into buffer requiring me to stop and restart playback...this is the same thing Nugs app does, and it's NOT the signal, I even tested with Speedtest, and every other app runs without issue. Must be an issue on nugs servers... This will likely impact my decision to pay $100+ for LivePhish+...why pay so much for a service that often doesn't work right?
Edit for more current. 2020 Things have improved a lot and become more reliable. Seems to be more solid on Android devices, including pixel and Galaxy devices. Great archive, mostly use the save offline functionality. ORIGINAL....2017 The app is pretty bad. It doesn't continue to play songs without restarting them. Offline mode doesn't work at all. On my phone it gives an error on my tablet it looks like its playing but doesn't produce any sound. This thing is useless to have.
Great music terrible app. I can't get a single show to play all the way through. Turned off battery restrictions and sleep settings. Contacted technical support and the issue keeps happening. $100 to listen to 2 minutes of uninterrupted music. Just ridiculous Edit: I have the update. It's still crashing every session. You have me over a barrel on this. Can you please update this app so that I can listen to shows that are included with the purchase of my ticket?
I love the options available through live Phish to watch and listen to so many shows! I even subscribe monthly! It is ungodly frustrating that when another Phan sends me a "shared" song from their LivePhish app, my Android can't open the link directly to my LivePhish app. The link opens to a browser, where you can click on yet another link that leaves the browser tab open while finally opening up the app to the show that the person sent. It shouldn't be that complicated.
Still a work in progress, for years!! Somewhat improved with less crashing!! However Appreciate the response, up until recently, me having Samsung phone made it difficult for subscription services, and it still wouldn't work on a plane while traveling (made sure to download several shows before my flight home from LA) and once again it wouldn't work without the cell/wifi service to connect to (even tho I was prepared for offline use?!?? 🤔) please explain why this keeps happening??
It's worth the dough. The only improvement it needs is letting the user access their download lists when out of cell range. ATM it completely shuts the whole thing down and you have to wait until you're in civilization before starting downloaded shows. But the sound is great, the interface is smooth, and there's a good selection. I do kind of wish it would take me back to where I was browsing when I look at a show, decided it's not for me, and then go back to the show list. Still a 4.4 out of 5.