[Gunstig2Snath]

I love the Radioplayer and to date I can’t get my head round Sounds. It just hasn’t got the same functionality unless one wants to listen to music. Radio plays, comedies et al are my listening menu. It seems that things are gradually being removed from the iPlayer. I’m old so not important to the new BBC.

[Angostura]

I’m still a iPlayer Radio user and don’t really plan to switch to Sounds anytime soon, due to missing functionality. (I listen to podcasts on the Apple app)

But I haven’t seen anything being removed from iPlayer Radio yet.

BTW - you can find non-music stuff in Categories below the fold on the Sounds app - so there’s Drama, for example.

No more granular categorisation into Crime, Historical etc - which is a shame

[morrbo]

Not sure why you're being downvoted. Sounds is utterly terrible. It's really difficult when they push it so much on the radio (ie. minimum 4 times per hour mentioned on radio 6 in the morning. I though, yeah ok then i'll support and give it a go. It's (well, when I tried it a while back) missing casting, an alarm, downloading, and easy way to search and find radio programmes, and a whole heap of other "base" features.

I am genuinely shocked as to why they're pushing it so hard, especially given that the current iplayer radio app is fantastic.

[Reason077]

I use iPlayer Radio too, and admittedly I haven’t gotten around to trying BBC Sounds yet.

But one thing iPlayer Radio has never been very good at is content discovery. You really have to know what you’re looking for, where as Netflix or Spotify are pretty good at the “you like these genres, so you’ll love this one!” game.

I believe this personalisation aspect is what BBC are trying to solve with Sounds.

[isostatic]

They made me sign into iPlayer radio the other day. That’s not what I want from iPlayer.

Why don’t they do what users actually want?

[afandian]

This is a legitimate question. They are a special class of organization and have all kinds of policies to work to. A private company can do what they want.

The problem is the policies.

[isostatic]

Somebody somewhere has presumably said "we want to know exactly how many people use it"

Lower down they've said "we need more people signed in"

Then lower down that they've decreed "if we force people to sign in, we'll increase the numbers signing in, even if we reduce the total users using the system"