Adventures in Odyssey Club for Android

I’ve loved Adventures in Odyssey since I was a kid, my mom and I listened together all the time. Now that she’s gone, it’s become my comfort podcast. The new update is great, especially being able to search for specific topics. My ONLY complaint however, is that it drains my phone battery fast. I started out this morning at 7am with a fully charged battery and I’ve been listening to episodes for an hour and a half with no other apps opened and my battery is at 15% at 8:38am. I don’t have a charger so I had to stop listening 😔

Signing up flow is a little time consuming and unconventional. It eventually hits an error saying it cannot load audio as it “could not connect to server”. I now know I can close the app and reopen it to reset this error but when I’m driving and trying to play something and have to give up for safety’s sake. I love the content and it is a huge encouragement. The app just needs some work. It had improved since I last had the app but it is still pretty buggy.

I hate to do this because we love the show. We have been a subscriber for long time. But This app is really bad. It is useless when we travel by plane.

I really enjoy Adventures in Odyssey I've been listening to the program since it was on cassettes. I have found the new upgrade very hard to enjoy. I can listen to other podcasts all day long with no issue and yet one episode of AIO makes my phone very warm/hot to the touch. Which tells me it's something on your end rather than mine since I can listen to other podcasts for hours without any issue of my phone getting warm/hot. Also I can't go back 15 seconds if I miss something to re-hear it. And if I have to get out for some reason, I go back to listen to the same episode, it won't let me. I am very disappointed with the upgrade.

I have grown up listening to AIO, from listening on the radio, buying the cd albums to signing up for the first adventure club. Now I have my own family and they have also grown up listening to AIO. I loved the first app. It worked the way it was supposed to. So we were very excited about the new update and all the features reported. Gotta say, one of the biggest let downs. Nothing works as supposed to. First, I have to sign in every time I use the app. Then, the auto play doesn’t work. It might play for a few then it stops. The download doesn’t work. Often it says it can’t connect to the server, even when I’m connected to home Wi-Fi. This all the same even when we use our home computers. It just seems like the developers pushed out a project without duly testing it, creating a very frustrating experience for the end user. We’re paying a premium so we can have access to all the episodes and features that are supposedly there but they don’t work. The only reason I have the club now is for my kids. I don’t even like using AIO club now. It is not a pleasant experience. In short, worst update ever