please empty your brain below
I too had to replace BBC iPlayer Radio with BBC Sounds. I also don't like it. As well as all the irrelevant recommendations, the various Radio 4 series I listen to as podcasts (normally several episodes in arrears) seem to be no longer findable in date order.
I think I will revert to downloading them from the BBC website and play on a non-BBC audio player app.

Nigel | 25.09.19 - 7:58 a.m. | #

I stopped using the iPlayer radio app when it insisted that I had to enter my TV license details to listen to the radio.

I liked to occasionally listen to Radio 6 on it. Not any more :(

dg quotes: "You don't need a TV licence to use BBC Sounds or BBC iPlayer Radio."

Jon Jones | 25.09.19 - 8:03 a.m. | #

You need an account, not a licence: " Without signing in, you‘ll be unable to play programmes ...

I listen to my podcasts through the basic iPhone app but I guess l'll need to get Sounds for the rare occasions I stream radio on the move.

Andrew | 25.09.19 - 8:25 a.m. | #

BBC iPlayer Radio is still working. Am I missing something?

Bryn Davies | 25.09.19 - 8:36 a.m. | #

I'm using it right now on an Android phone, listening to 5 Live

Jim Harte | 25.09.19 - 8:39 a.m. | #

I might be in the minority that I actually like the BBC Sounds app and I have used a lot more over the last 3 months than I ever did the iPlayer Radio app. It has also recommended me some excellent content which I would not have otherwise known about, and I now listen to these pieces regularly.

My main complaint with it right now is the inability to adjust the queue/"up next", for say if I want to setup a playlist of shows for a longer car journey when I can't just choose the next selection manually after the previous ends.

Braemar | 25.09.19 - 8:55 a.m. | #

I like BBC Sounds. Admittedly the 'search' function can be a bit hit-and-miss, but it provides access to many programmes in the BBC radio archive that I've previously failed to find elsewhere.

Frank F | 25.09.19 - 9:44 a.m. | #

I don't watch / listen to anything on BBC iplayer on principle. I've already paid (via the licence) a lot of money, I don't see why I should be made to prove additional details so that they can track me for their own purposes.

Rogmi | 25.09.19 - 9:47 a.m. | #

It appears to still be working on Android. *shrug* I imagine they'll turn that off soon enough.

I'm grateful that the iPlayer app for my Squeezebox isn't from the BBC and operates by directly hitting up their web XML for programming. So it's unaffected, and what I use most often to listen to things. I know someday they'll obsolete my Squeezebox, but I will continue to love it until then.

Chz | 25.09.19 - 10:01 a.m. | #

My app is still working on iOS.

Madison | 25.09.19 - 10:09 a.m. | #

I use get_iplayer to listen offline, not through app or browser.

toby | 25.09.19 - 10:26 a.m. | #

Still have it on Android. But I'm with Braemar in that I've discovered podcasts that I wasn't aware of previously, and now listen to regularly.

Braemar - the auto play toggle is in the settings menu in My Sounds, if I have understood you correctly.

E1W-er | 25.09.19 - 10:29 a.m. | #

My radio iPlayer access still seems to be working, but I believe they are gradually killing it off for everyone.

I will of course hang on to the bitter end because BBC Sounds is so terrible.

Eric | 25.09.19 - 12:40 p.m. | #

My first encounter with BBC Sounds was when it replaced the old Radio player pages. I would regularly go to the page that listed all Comedy shows, in reverse-chronological order. The new version (originally) did away with this. Thankfully, after submitting feedback (and from the response I received, was not alone in doing so), they've finally re-added this view.

Not that it stops it recommending I listen to the Gemma Collins podcast, something I think I'd rather eat my own hair than voluntarily listen to.

Moogal | 25.09.19 - 1:49 p.m. | #

I must have been using iPlayer in a very simple way, as Sounds allows me to do exactly what I did before. Most my my listening, however, goes via web browser rather than app, so that's even less of a difference to notice.

NickW | 25.09.19 - 1:51 p.m. | #

I tried to find a programme I missed yesterday on Sounds.....aagggghhhhhhh!
In frustration I just asked Google...found it for me in a blink.

B | 25.09.19 - 7:23 p.m. | #

I use Sounds on my laptop primarily for catch-up purposes. I've not noticed any practical difference from iplayer.

timbo | 25.09.19 - 8:25 p.m. | #

It's so unintuitive!
"View all:" with a choice of Stations or Schedules which then just seem to lead to slightly different ways of finding the programme I want.
"Listen" just seems to take me back to the Sounds home page.
"Continue Listening" has just Bells on Sunday, which I listened to once about 3 months ago.
An "iPlayer" button taunting me at the top of the screen, which mostly offers TV stations but bizarrely still has Radio 1.
Thank you, I feel better now.

Andrew S | 25.09.19 - 10:32 p.m. | #

Iplayer radio gave up for me on my Amazon Fire early this morning. grr new App to learn.

Mike D | 26.09.19 - 9:38 a.m. | #

Android users can install the international version of iPlayer radio from here - it doesn't do signing in (which may or may not be a plus point), and doesn't have Chromecast support.

martin | 26.09.19 - 10:19 p.m. | #











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