What made me decide to buy this app were two shows on their list, Dragnet and Lux Radio Theater. So I downloaded and installed the app and I find just a small fraction of the programs listed...and no Dragnet or Lux Radio Theater!
There also isn't any way to make a playlist that I've found. There's no search function so the only way to find a show is to manually look through several genres.
The playback controls are unresponsive and provide no visual feedback as to whether or not a selection (stop, pause, next program, shuffle) was successful. I ended up hitting the next selection button several times with no response, and many seconds later, the app began changing programs, even after I had gone into another app.
A feature I found quite jarring was that when a program selection is made, a loud computerized female voice says, "Downloading". The last thing I want to hear when I'm getting ready to listen to some classic Old Time Radio from the 30s, 40s and 50s, is a loud computerized voice! Not exactly a good way to set the mood. Oh, and before another program plays, that computerized voice breaks the mood to let you know it's downloading. Since most OTR programs are low volume, I had my device's volume quite high, making this inappropriate voice scare the heck out of me because it was so loud in relation to the radio show.
If I could return this app for a refund, I would. Short of that, I'm uninstalling it as I have no use for it.
FlashOTR: Old Time Radio
2.6 | 15 ratings
Price: 0.99
Last update: 12-17-2024
Latest updates
What's new in version 1.1.8- Enhanced Graphics
- Enhanced Player Controls
Product Details
Release Date: 2014
Date first listed on Amazon: March 2, 2014
Developed By: Android Developers of the Mississippi River Valle
ASIN: B00IQHKOWI
Customer reviews:
2.8 out of 5 stars15 customer ratings
2.8 out of 5 stars15 customer ratings
Developer info
- [email protected]
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Product features
- No pop up ads
- 10's of thousands of episodes available
- Listen anytime
- Download and listen at your leisure
- Save episodes for archive
- Adding more episodes constantly
- Mark listened to episodes to prevent replay
Product description
The old-time radio era, sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of Radio, refers to a period of radio programming in the United States lasting from the early 1920s until the 1950s, when television superseded radio as the medium of choice for programming and radio shifted to playing popular music. During this period, when radio was dominant and filled with a variety of formats and genres, people regularly tuned into their favorite radio programs. Now with FlashOTR, we can do that again.Just a small list of programs coming
Abbott and Costello
Adventures by Morse
The Adventures of Nero Wolfe
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe
The Adventures of Sam Spade
The Adventures of Superman
The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen
The Aldrich Family
The Amazing Nero Wolfe
Amos 'n' Andy
Arch Oboler's Plays
Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator
The Bickersons
The Black Museum
Blackstone, the Magic Detective
Blair of the Mounties
Blondie
Blue Ribbon Town
The Bob Hope Show
Boston Blackie
Box 13
Broadway Is My Beat
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Bulldog Drummond
Burns and Allen
Calling All Cars
Calling All Detectives
The Campbell Playhouse
Candy Matson
Captain Midnight
Casey, Crime Photographer
Cavalcade of America
CBS Radio Workshop
Challenge of the Yukon (aka Sergeant Preston of the Yukon)
Chandu the Magician
The Cinnamon Bear
The Cisco Kid
Cloak and Dagger
The Clock
Counterspy
The Creaking Door
Crime Classics
The Crime Club
Crime Doctor
Crime Does Not Pay
Damon Runyon Theatre
Dark Fantasy
Dick Tracy
Dimension X
Doc Savage
Dragnet
Duffy's Tavern
Easy Aces
The Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show
Ellery Queen
Escape
Father Knows Best
Fibber McGee and Molly
Flash Gordon
Fort Laramie
The Fred Allen Show
Frontier Gentleman
Gang Busters
The General Mills Radio Adventure Theater
G.I. Journal
The Great Gildersleeve
The Green Hornet
Great Moments in History
Gunsmoke
Hall of Fantasy
Have Gun, Will Travel
The Hermit's Cave
Hop Harrigan
Horatio Hornblower
I Love a Mystery
I Love Lucy
I Was a Communist for the FBI
Information Please
Inner Sanctum Mysteries
Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy
The Jack Benny Program
Jeff Regan, Investigator
Johnny Dollar (Insurance Investigator)
The Life of Riley
Life with Luigi
Lights Out
Little Orphan Annie
The Lives of Harry Lime
The Lone Ranger
Lum and Abner
Lux Radio Theater
Ma Perkins
Magic Island
Mandrake the Magician
Martin and Lewis
The Mercury Theater on the Air
The Milton Berle Show
Molle Mystery Theater
Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons
Murder at Midnight
My Friend Irma
The Mysterious Traveler
Mystery in the Air
The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Nick Carter, Master Detective
Nightbeat
Our Miss Brooks
Pat Novak, for Hire
Perry Mason
Philco Radio Time
The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show
Philo Vance
Quiet, Please
Red Ryder
The Red Skelton Show
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Rocky Fortune
Rocky Jordan
Rogue's Gallery
The Saint
The Shadow
The Six Shooter
Space Patrol
Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police
The Strange Dr. Weird
Suspense
Tales of the Texas Rangers
Tarzan
This Is Your FBI
The Unexpected
Vic and Sade
The Weird Circle
The Whisperer
The Whistler
The Witch's Tale
X Minus One
You Bet Your Life
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
too many too list.
More shows added daily. If you dont see it just let us know and we will add it.
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Size: 3.3MB
Version: 1.1.8
Developed By: Android Developers of the Mississippi River Valle
Application Permissions:
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- Access coarse (e.g., Cell-ID, Wi-Fi) location
- Access fine (e.g., GPS) location
- Access extra location provider commands
- Create mock location providers for testing
- Access information about networks
- Access information about Wi-Fi networks
- Open network sockets
- Access the vibration feature
- Write to external storage
Minimum Operating System: Android 2.3
Approximate Download Time: Less than 30 seconds
Top reviews from the United States
C.P.G.
Look Elsewhere for OTR
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2014
Stan Nettles
Three Stars
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2014richard
Not Worth the Money
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2021Lyle Berg
Too bad.
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2017Beadwizard
Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2017Stanley Pickard
One Star
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2015Gloria Hayes
The quality of the audio is very good.
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2014George Wagner
One Star
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2015