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Today saw the BBC take the wraps off their new iPlayer Radio website and iOS app.
For the website:
- Stations takes me through to the network homepage for each station where I can see what is on live and listen live with a single click.
- Categories takes me through to the radio categories where I can browse for content.
- Schedule lets me go through to the full schedule, or the detailed page for the current and next programmes.
- Favourites lets me quickly find my favourite shows, a feature that we are looking to build out further over time to make this page more and more valuable for our users.
The key features of the iOS app include:
- A touchscreen dial that beautifully shows the breadth of our radio, allowing easy access to all 57 BBC radio stations and their live streams.
- An alarm clock to let you wake up to your favourite BBC Radio station.
- From programme pages you can enjoy catch-up content, video clips, access to our podcasts, and for music shows the details of the tracklist.
- You can set programmes alerts to tell you when specific favourite shows are on.
- You can favourite tracks and share them with friends via email and Twitter.
It will be available later today in the Apple App Store.
Have you used it yet? Let us know what you think by leaving a comment below.
Just downloaded it and I agree that it’s a nice app. Not sure how much standard radio content is there that isn’t already on the standard iplayer app, but as it’s radio only, it’s a lot easier to find what you’re looking for.
The podcast feature is excellent, and I can see that getting a lot of use, and the favourite track function allows you to instantly add stuff you like so that you can refer to it later, avoiding one of my biggest irritations with the BBC, i.e. hearing a track that you really like then not being able to find out who it was by because you either missed the link or the DJ was too absorbed in their own self-importance to bother naming the track (less of a problem now that Moyles has gone, but still happens more often than you might imagine).
All in all, a very nice app that I can predict will migrate to the front screen of my phone very quickly.
p.s. The star rating seems to be playing up, so regardless of what it says, I rate this as a 4.5