Song of the Day

Kind of like listening to the radio version of the current, I find all kinds of little gems of songs with Song of the Day, leading to many pleasant new discoveries! Like it’s brother/sister radio stations across the country, I’m glad a station like this exists, playing music that otherwise wouldn’t find an audience like 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.

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 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'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!

This used to be one of my favorite music podcasts. MPR introduced you to a wide range of musical artists. Now they stick an ad before every song. Do they have no idea what is like to listen to 5 songs in a row, and you get an ad, the same ad, before every single one. I am now unsubscribed from this one.