Audm - New Yorker, Atlantic

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User Reviews for Audm - New Yorker, Atlantic

Stop using NYT reporters as readers

I like Audm generally but a few things keep me from using it as often as I had hoped. My complaints-1) I’d like more longform pieces. When the feed is overrun by 5-10 minute short pieces and op-eds it’s disappointing. It’s the longer news stories, profiles, features, and investigative pieces that I really want from this app. Also, there are times when a long print piece from a participating publication will get a lot of attention on social media during the work week, and I will think “great, I will catch that on Audm this weekend” and it never appears. Or it takes several weeks. Not sure what’s happening there. 2) The car interface is annoying because you have to line up all of your preferred articles in a queue in advance. You can’t just play straight through the current news feed. 3) This is probably the most important item— please stop having NYTimes reporters read their own work. Stick to the professionals voice folks. It genuinely impacts the quality of my listening experience with this app, to the point that I will often just switch to another article, podcast, audiobook, or NPR because I just… cannot. It is a lot like listening to your classmate being made to read a passage out loud to the class— awkward, and sometimes even cringey, for listener and reader both.

1anggrl, Apr 16, 2022

Excellent App — one small suggestion

Disregard my earlier review — the developer got back to me and I was just wrong. They *do* provide the full description from the publisher; you just need to tap on the description field to see it. My bad! Thanks for the excellent service and for getting back to me, Listen In Audio, Inc. Excellent app, I love the idea as well as the content. This is something I’ve been thinking of, myself, for years and they have executed the concept beautifully. However, I just can’t understand why the user isn’t able to see the full synopses of the articles prior to listening. You see a small sub-headline in the “Discover” feed, but when you click on the article it just launches right into the content so that you don’t really know the entire concept of the article before you start it. I’ve had to search the titles of the articles online to try to find synopses, because otherwise I’m never sure whether I’m actually interested in what the article is about. Short descriptions (could be the ones written by the original publication, doesn’t need to be complicated) would go a long way in improving the usability of this app.

Banzaifly, Jul 31, 2019

Great idea, but not well implemented

As the title of this review indicates, I think the developers of Audm had a great idea. Sadly, it has not been implemented very effectively. From a purely technical point of view the user interface is a bit clumsy. The way in which articles are selected, queued, and played could be a lot cleaner. More annoying is the app’s propensity to crash. For example, as I am writing this (the last day of October 2019), the app nearly always crashes when scrolling through the list of available periodicals. I could perhaps live with these technical shortcomings, but far more troublesome are the content issues, viz., the lack of good articles from which to select. Given the lengthy list of periodicals the app touts, the developer would have prospective users think that there is a vast, vast number of quality articles from which to chose. But that’s not really the case. To cite just one example, the last article available from “The New York Review of Books”, a semi-monthly publication, was two and a half months prior to the writing of this app review.

Canavansbackyard, Nov 01, 2019

Love this. A few tweaks and it’s perfect!

Have been flirting with Audm for a while. Finally cracked and haven’t looked back. It’s great. I look at screens all day. I subscribe to magazines I don’t have time to read. But I do have time to listen. And sometimes podcasts + Audible + Hoopla just isn’t the thing. So get this, please: it’s cool. It’s also much cheaper than subscribing to all the content in print/online. And they probably need mass subscriptions to make it work at this price. Small gripes: the readings are generally good to very good. But (so far, 2 weeks in) ALL the American-voiced articles pause for an unfathomably long time between paragraphs. In the often-long pieces this can be quite disruptive and, depending on your mood at the time, add up over 25+ mins to a an undertow of mild irritation or an overtow (is “overtow” a thing? It should be!) of madness-inducing rage. Ok, I exaggerate - but seriously, it gets in the way of an otherwise great listening experience. Your mileage may vary. At first I thought this was just an unfortunate glitch to do with the fabulous, eerily accurate feature where the text scrolls with the audio in perfect sync. But, weirdly, English-English voices reading British-sourced articles don’t do this. They pause between paragraphs for a normal, helpful amount of time. So, Audm people, if you can fix this, I’ll give it six stars. You deserve it anyway! 🙏🏻

Candradasa, Dec 11, 2019

Amazing Product, Frustrating Application

I love this subscription so much — the ability to listen to long-form news and magazine articles while working or traveling is such a great thing to have. The individuals who do the readings are engaging and soothing to listen to, and the breadth of article availability is awesome.The app, however, is so very frustrating. I’ve frequently had articles stop playing as soon as I minimize the article or when my phone locks, which obviously isn’t sustainable for a listening app. I have also had articles stop playing every time they reached the end of a paragraph. CarPlay integration is similarly dysfunctional. Each article takes up too much space on the main screen, it takes an inordinate amount of scrolling. The author filter is nice I guess, but you have to scroll through an endless list of authors to select one. I think a voice actor filter with the ability to type to complete would be more handy for an app such as this. Genre/topic filters also seem like a no-brained to add. And I pray for the day when the desktop player is finally implemented.I still recommend the service, but it has a ways to go.

DNmaker, Apr 01, 2021

Could be so much better

This would be an everyday experience for me- fantastic articles and fabulous readers well-worth the annual cost - but there are shortcomings that make me seriously hesitate now that renewal time draws near. 1) navigating within the article is mysteriously difficult- I want to scroll back to sections that were particularly interesting or that I need to refresh my memory for relevant details - sakes alive, some of the articles are nearly an hour long and the 15 second review button ain’t gonna help much. 2) The article menu wastes visual space on pictures that don’t help me decide whether or not to listen to an article. I would much prefer a 2 sentence summary of the article rather than a picture and 6-7 words. If I have a print magazine in front of me, I can easily skim to decide but that’s extra difficult here. 3) i wish I could track and save articles that I particularly enjoyed or that I want to refer back to. As it is now, they just slide ever-farther down the article scroll, endlessly replaced by new articles that make me realize how much I’ve forgotten because I can’t find them again.

is amore!, Sep 09, 2020

Pleasantly surprised

I originally downloaded this app to listen to some specific article fully intending to delete it after the free trial period because really who needs another subscription, especially when podcasts exist for free. But surprisingly I found that it’s well worth it - for one, subscriptions to all the different magazines audm pulls from would be way more than $9 a month. There’s a pretty steady stream of new articles available too. The narration is audiobook quality and for the narrators who read a bit too slow for my taste, the option to listen on 1.1x speed basically eliminates that issue without making it sound distorted or weird. I spend all day looking at a computer for work so it’s really nice to be able to listen to great journalism without having to spend more time sitting looking at a screen. My only complaint is I wish they had some ways to filter articles by genre or content, like categories or tags for “film” “music” “opEds” “literary criticism” “tech” etc. For new subscribers there’s a significant back catalogue of articles and I’m sure there are interesting finds in there, but it’s difficult to navigate through them if you don’t either have a specific one in mind, or don’t want to scroll through every single one.

permanentdaylight, Sep 20, 2020

Great! Just great!

I think the service provided by Audm is one of my best finds over the last year. Being able to listen to these wonderful articles in multiple journals while I’m driving somewhere or even just sitting at home listening is a real pleasure. At first I felt a little guilty that I was listening to these articles instead of reading them. But after a while I realized it was no different than listening to the books I listen to on Audible or to the podcasts that I listen to. The narrator‘s are excellent and the addition of this service to my listening pleasure has been exquisite. I strongly recommend it and have actually purchased subscriptions for a few friends and family already. I certainly hope it continues to grow and improve over time but for right now it’s just a pleasure to have it.

Rp052552, Dec 29, 2020

Too many short NYT columns read by author themselves

I have been using this app for nearly 2 years now and I have been enjoying it. There are still some longstanding pesky bugs and issues with the usability, but that's not what I'm here for. Since NYT acquired Audm, this app changed for the worse. Previously Audm mostly marketed itself as an app for verified longform articles, which were read by professional narrators. I liked it a lot. But since the acquisition, Audm is full of short NYT columns or op-eds which don't have much info. Sure, NYT has good articles too; but what NYT pushes to Audm are short columns that are mostly not very informational. And worse still, those short NYT columns are *read by the reporters*. Where have the professional narrators gone? Sure, some of the reporters have really good voices clear pronunciation, but the quality of the narration varies a lot depending on who reads it. Why all NYT articles should be read by the authors themselves? They are not professional narrators. Can Audm please come back to its old self, the app with verified good-quality longform articles, read by pro narrators?

Tiny_Wings, Oct 05, 2021

Description

Audm presents the world's best long-form journalism, read aloud word-for-word by celebrated audiobook narrators. Listen to many hours' worth of new stories every week, from publications including: * The New York Times * The New Yorker * The Atlantic * WIRED * Rolling Stone * The New Republic * New York Magazine * BuzzFeed News * Vanity Fair * The New Republic * The Daily Beast * The New York Review of Books * Outside Magazine * ProPublica * London Review of Books * The Atavist * Texas Monthly * Epic Magazine * The Texas Observer * The Times Literary Supplement * The Bitter Southerner * First Things * The Marshall Project * Places Journal Add stories to your playlist to download them, then listen on the go -- even with no Internet connection. Within a story, jump to any paragraph by tapping on it.

Choose the narration speed you like best. After your free trial you will be charged. Payment will be handled through your iTunes account. The first charge will occur when your trial ends. Your subscription will automatically renew 24 hours before the end of each subscription period. You may cancel your subscription by going to iOS Settings > iTunes & App Stores > Apple ID > View Apple ID > Subscriptions > Manage. If you cancel in the middle of a subscription period, your cancelation will become effective at the end of that period. Terms of Service: https://www.audm.com/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://www.audm.com/privacy-policy

Audm - New Yorker, Atlantic