Folk Alley Player

4.6
880 reviews
10K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Listen to the best in hosted folk, Americana and roots music with the Folk Alley App. The completely new version allows you to listen to great music live, pause and rewind the live audio, and explore a variety of other great content from FollyAlley.com. Now, wake up to Folk Alley with an alarm clock feature!

FolkAlley.com is the “coffee house that never closes,” offering fans music from their favorite artists while helping them discover new music that fits their tastes. Professional DJs Elena See, Barb Heller, Matt Reilly and Cindy Howes host the Folk Alley stream.

• DVR-like controls (pause, rewind, and fast forward). You can pause the live stream to have a conversation and pick up right where you left off! Or rewind to catch that great part again!
• Listen to streaming music from FolkAlley.com even while traveling! Start the app and your favorite stream starts playing.
• One click stream switching – flip from the main stream to Fresh Cuts or a seasonal stream with a single click.
• Enjoy the Folk Alley stream in the background while browsing the web, using your workout app or catching up on your emails!
• Access additional great content like videos, blogs, performance interviews or purchase music you hear through iTunes.
• Easily share music and videos with family and friends via the “Share” button.
• A built in Sleep Timer and Alarm Clock allows you to go to sleep and wake up to streaming music from Folk Alley.

Since September 2003, Folk Alley has brought the best of folk, Americana, and roots music to an international audience – listeners excited to finally find “their” music available 24 hours a day online. Listener-supported Folk Alley is dedicated to a beloved musical genre that is often overlooked by commercial radio networks.

FolkAlley.com is a non-profit Internet venture produced by WKSU-FM, an award-winning public radio station with more than 60 years of broadcasting history. A service of Kent State University in Northeast Ohio, you can hear the two-hour Folk Alley Radio Show weekly on WKSU and other public radio stations across the United States.

Please support Folk Alley and become a member today!
Updated on
May 5, 2023

Data safety

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No data shared with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
App activity, App info and performance, and Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit
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Ratings and reviews

4.7
772 reviews
Rick Spurgeon
January 27, 2021
Pretty much the same for me. In fact I was just restarting the app because the music was starting and stopping after a pretty good length of time working well this afternoon when I was asked for a review. Don't use any features except listening to member stream. Last night at home I gave up listening because of starting and stopping. Other times it works well.
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Never Mind
December 11, 2023
Great music but the app needs improvement. Stops the music for a few seconds anytime you change cell towers or when moving from one wifi zone to the next. Ruins the music with the constant stops and starts. Pity, great music just wish they would improve the app so it was usable. By the way Spotify Never Ever stops under the exact same conditions. Now i get messages hourly from this app even with alarms and notifications turned off. So goodby i have uninstalled it.
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Public Media Apps
September 10, 2020
Your feedback helps us make our app better for everyone. Please contact us directly via the "Help" section of the app so that we can address your concerns. Thank you.
A Google user
July 7, 2019
Love the Folk Alley experience, and the app streams reliably, but there's two issues with the app. First the display of the currently playing song & artist often will not update, even after a number of songs, and it's otherwise difficult to find the info (playlist at that time} after the fact, so I'm often missing who played. And if there could be a way to stream at a lower bitrate option for us data deprived users... Thanks!
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What's new

Performance enhancements and bug fixes.
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