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The new IOS app crashes playing anything but the newest recordings - is this just me?

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#1

It started a few months ago with the beta version - if I browse a couple of years back in search results, open a lesson and select “full lesson” in the bottom right menu, the app simply quits (I guess it’s killed by IOS for some crash). I don’t understand how this has even passed basic QA :confused:

Luckily the old app is still reasonably useful, although it cannot go back enough for some reason, only to around 2012. I like exploring old Qing Wen, for one.

Anyone else has the same experience or is it something with my phone? It’s been freshly restored - nothing has changed, so I think it’s the app that’s broken.

#2

Mine crashes constantly. And I have a brand-new phone that just updated everything. But it still crashes. My biggest complaint is that when I try to go through my flashcards, it usually crashes the app

#3

I’ve been able to access and download pre-2012 lessons without any problems.

On the other hand, I do occasionally suffer the same phenomenon of the app shutting down when I tap on the red Play button on both iPad and Iphone (the latter is only a few months old). This happens even when I’ve downloaded the lesson and irrespective of the vintage of the lesson.

I loove the Chinesepod lessons so it’s very frustrating since this happens just at the moment I’m about to go out and looking forward to listening to a lesson on the go.

#4

I’ve recently switched to their web interface completely, the new iphone app is rather useless. The old app is less crash-prone.

No usable downloads via the mobile web interface though.

#5

Same here for about 6 months now.

#6

I have noticed that the new app crashes consistently when I try to play a recent “Qing Wen” episode. I can view all of the dialog etc, but when I try to play the full lesson, it crashes right out of the app.

All other levels/lessons seem to work fine.

(I was able to play the Qing Wen lesson audio on the old version of the app, which has remained viable in my iPhone.

#7

same with me, crashes a lot

#8

Please fix these problems chinesepod!

Also can not download lessons to hear, when for instance I am on a plane or away from wifi.
Super frustrating.

Not what we expected

#9

Dear subscribers
We are in the process of submitting a new, improved app into the App store and it should take 1-2 weeks from today (17th August 2016) to be available for download.

  • Kevin of ChinesePod