BBC Sounds player launch


Over 80,000 hours of music, radio and podcast content are now available to watch through BBC Sounds on YouView. Users will be able to listen to live and on-demand radio from 18 national and 40 local stations, music mixes and award-winning podcasts.
If you already have a BBC iPlayer account, this can be used to sign into the BBC Sounds account.
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Thanks Luke. So I presume this is a flick the switch and everyone has it rather than a staged roll out.
EDIT - Just tried an update on my T4000 and nothing showed up
“Users will be able to listen to live and on-demand radio from 18 national and 40 local stations, music mixes and award-winning podcasts”.
So where are the other 39 local stations this seems to promise me?
Hope everyone is keeping safe and well.
Darren
Hi Roy,
Sarah's quote comes in part from the BBCs webpage but has not been quoted in full, as it allows access to a users local radio station only.
The new TV app is being rolled out on YouView and Virgin Media devices from today - and will launch on other TV platforms in the future.
During these very challenging times, the app will provide listeners with another way to access live and on demand radio from the BBC’s 18 national and 40 local stations, music mixes curated by experts, artists and special guests, and a wide range of award-winning podcasts.
With the new TV app, users can choose to listen live to any of the BBC's national radio stations and their local radio station, or pick up where they left off with the Peter Crouch podcast.
Hope that clears it up in whatever part of the world your stuck in. Or are you thankfully home now?
There are 4 Disney+ threads concurrently running on this forum ken. No need to post on this one.
But less choice of stations overall - 20 on BBC Sounds, even without the other 39 local stations, versus 16 on Freeview, including the 4 next most local BBC stations (I think that’s the criterion anyway) in a separate channel range from our most local BBC station.
So 8 channels on BBC Sounds that aren’t on Freeview, and all very useful (as long as you are multi-lingual!)
I remain mystified that while the BBC Sounds website, and the BBC Sounds iOS and Android apps, do indeed provide all forty local radio stations, the YouView app doesn’t.
A bit second-class now, and perhaps an indicator of what the BBC think of YouView these days?
So we are now on day 9 of our 14-day self-isolation subsequent to this. After which, if we stay well, we switch from being potentially dangerous to other people to the normal state where other people are potentially dangerous to us.
This is with a T2000 and a T2100 - perhaps there's a problem with the T4000?
If you're keen to use the app I suggest that you try the maintenance modes:
https://support.youview.com/youview-box/box-and-remote/using-maintenance-mode/
I'll get this checked with our Content team and try testing it as well.
Thanks,
Sarah
Someone has noticed.
I'm guessing no one else has tried to actually use it rather than just having a casual browse around.
Without search it is virtually useless.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/category/sport?sort=popular
Stuart
It kicks in after 10 minutes.
I think it only works on the main playback screen - so if you've gone back to see more details of the programme it won't work.
If you've got time on your hands you can read my post about this here:
https://community.youview.com/youview/discussion/comment/19004538/#Comment_19004538
Open the BBC Sounds webpage on your device of choice and then in the top right corner type in the programme name of interest into the searchbar. Just play the first 30 seconds of it and then press stop. The content will then appear on the YouView version under 'Continue Listening'. But we all know it should really have its own search feature.
The site is very good for listening to live radio (but are there problems with the sound quality?) but we can already do that anyway.
I was disappointed there were no schedules that we could use to search for recent programmes we had missed. Also there was nowhere to find talk and current affairs programmes like In Our Time or Thinking Allowed. Will these be added soon?
The arrangement of topics seems chaotic - they are all jumbled up and clustered under eccentric headings. Would it not be sensible to offer podcasts within each station grouping. Surely radio listeners are most familiar with which stations broadcast which programmes, and should not have to guess eg which programmes are favourites, or which music genre their favourite programme fits into.
I can see there is a point in jumbling everything up for casual browsers, but I cannot see why the site fails to cater for the 'listen again' audience. I hope this is a very rough first draft and that some logic will be designed in in revised versions.
I do more often though use my Amazon Echos or BBC sounds app on my iPad to catch up with the show.
If I do use BBC sounds its manly for Radio 2 at times. As I dont really listen to any other BBC station.
My music taste has changed a little over the years and I now like a mix of music but still dont like heavy metal music.
Darren