Song of the Day - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I've been following this podcast for quite some time, and have liked it quite a bit. They have great mix of interesting music that isn't widely available.

Unfortunately, the past 5-6 episodes have had a strange drop in the quality of the audio- think like you're actually listening to it through an AM radio station and that approximates it. The songs are still encoded at 128kbps, but the sampling is down to 16 kHz.

If they can fix that, they'll get me back up to 5 stars, otherwise it's a 3 for me.

I'm a bit of a super-user of song of the day podcasts. I subscribe to The Current (Twin Cities), KEXP (Seattle), and KCRW (Los Angeles). The Current's podcast is, of course, extra good at Minnesota music. In terms of national acts, KEXP usually uncovers the hot new content a month ahead of The Current. Literally, the Current is often publishing the same songs a month after KEXP. And their bit rate is lower, too.

I'm a member of this station, so they obviously won me over a while back. The Current plays an astounding MIX of music. Though I don't like all of it, I am a financial supporter because of that MIX. I never would decide to complain about free music! I like to say "you get what you pay for," which works backwards in public radio... If you don't like it, well, at least you didn't pay for it. If you do like it, then go pay something for it! BTW, kcrw & kexp have put up some free songs of the day by Minnesotan local artists! everyone is local somewhere.
Lastly, if you like this get their mpr app to stream the current or go to thecurrent.org!

As a sustaining member of MPR including The Current, I am grateful for such an amazing radio station with an awesome playlist! Having the song of the day is an extra special daily treat...

I've been listening to this podcast for at least a year now and I love almost every episode. The music is, as other reviewers say, refreshing and out of the ordinary, in the best of ways. My problem, however, is that the audio quality has recently suffered for whatever reason! iTunes tells me that the recent podcasts, in comparison to older ones which I have saved, are of a lower bit rate. This results in a very low quality sound more akin to listening to the songs over AM radio than as an mp3 download. This is really frustrating, and I've deleted several episodes after only going 30 seconds in because the audio fidelity was so unbearable. Please fix this! I don't want to unsubscribe, but I will!

I give 2 stars because MPR deserves 5 stars for song selection and 1 star for audio quality, then minus 1 from that average for not doing anything about it!

How about adding more styles of music. Every song I've heard on this podcast could be filed under 'hipster/comfort/cutesy'. How about music that poses some form of a threat or rebellion or instills even a remote level of danger. By this I don't neccessarily mean punk or metal---just something else, something which doesn't sound like a contender for the next Volkswagon commercial. How about widening our horizons, MPR?