BBC Sounds

[Nick Armstrong]

I think that if you go to "Sounds", click on the R3 "Listen Live" (currently Choral Evensong) then scroll down to "Recent Tracks", the piece currently being played is first on the list. (At the moment, somebody's talking, so no "track" is shown, but the Gabrieli Canzon a 10 was played "3 mins ago".)

Well on the phone anyhow, the 'listen live' page doesn't scroll - I've swiped every way, clicked on everything: nothing.

I also tried the (multiple clicking) approach of going into the R3 'schedule' page, selecting the calendar and clicking on the entry: again, nothing for the programme currently playing. (Previous programmes have the three little dots by them, which take you to a detailed description of the content.)

I think your solution works for the PC version of 'Sounds' where I grant you, there is a 'Read more' option which gives the listing for the programme.

Seems to me to be a serious omission from the mobile version.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

the PC version of 'Sounds'

Oh for dawg's sake, don't start another Scruton Thread!

Seems to me to be a serious omission from the mobile version.

I have just filled in their online questionnaire expressing my own dissatisfaction with the "improvements".

[LMcD]

I've just been told that there are 2 pieces 'Playing Now' simultaneously, but I can only hear 1 (Britten)

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh for dawg's sake, don't start another Scruton Thread!

[Nick Armstrong]

I have just filled in their online questionnaire expressing my own dissatisfaction with the "improvements".

Mind you, maybe we're better off without further details, given the calibre of information available on the 'old' app (as I pointed out on another thread earlier):

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Mind you, maybe we're better off without further details, given the calibre of information available on the 'old' app (as I pointed out on another thread earlier):

I did suggest that the money spent on developing this "upgrade" might have been better spent on employing someone with a smidgen of knowledge of Classical Music on the site.

Not that it's just on the "Zounds!" - in the interval of last night's concert, Mark Forrest cheerily told us that we'd just heard the "Second Movement" of Schubert's Quartettsatz! Now, messel'n, I'd've made a bit more of a song & dance of the facts, both that a new Movement of the work had been discovered, AND that it showed a radically new attitude to Form by Schubert, in that it repeated exactly the same Music that appeared in the First Movement.

[Flay]

Been trying the app again.

As far as I can see, there's no easy way to find out what's currently playing.

On iPlayer, there's always a 'show more' option to expand the page to the concert programme; this doesn't seem to be available on Sounds.

Am I missing something?

The Sounds App schedule gives no information about forthcoming programmes, whereas the iPlayer Radio app does.

Am I missing something too?

I can't see the point of Sounds.

[LMcD]

I did suggest that the money spent on developing this "upgrade" might have been better spent on employing someone with a smidgen of knowledge of Classical Music on the site.

Not that it's just on the "Zounds!" - in the interval of last night's concert, Mark Forrest cheerily told us that we'd just heard the "Second Movement" of Schubert's Quartettsatz! Now, messel'n, I'd've made a bit more of a song & dance of the facts, both that a new Movement of the work had been discovered, AND that it showed a radically new attitude to Form by Schubert, in that it repeated exactly the same Music that appeared in the First Movement.

Perhaps Franz was working on a Groundhog Quartet.

[Alwyn]

BBC Sounds

Am I alone in finding BBC Sounds hard to navigate? I have managed to download JRR for 1 Dec but can’t now get download option to show. Radio iPlayer was so much simpler.

[antongould]

Morning ..... there has already been a bit of a discussion ..... on my phone at the bottom of the screen there is an option My Sounds ... select that and then on the next screen Downloads and it should, hopefully, be there .... good luck

[Nick Armstrong]

Am I alone in finding BBC Sounds hard to navigate? I have managed to download JRR for 1 Dec but can’t now get download option to show. Radio iPlayer was so much simpler.

Hello Alwyn - you are not alone! As a matter of interest, are you using the 'app' on a computer or a mobile device? As you'll see from my recent post above, I find the latter more deficient that the desktop-based version...

[Bryn]

Morning ..... there has already been a bit of a discussion ..... on my phone at the bottom of the screen there is an option My Sounds ... select that and then on the next screen Downloads and it should, hopefully, be there .... good luck

I'm still of the opinion that, at least for such as Radio 3 enthusiasts, this is a case of "if it ain't broke, break it". Fortunately, the schedule, plus get_iplayer, remains a fairly straightforward route to downloading, and get_iplayer reminds one to delete downloads after the 30 days imposed by the Beeb.

[cloughie]

I did suggest that the money spent on developing this "upgrade" might have been better spent on employing someone with a smidgen of knowledge of Classical Music on the site.

Not that it's just on the "Zounds!" - in the interval of last night's concert, Mark Forrest cheerily told us that we'd just heard the "Second Movement" of Schubert's Quartettsatz! Now, messel'n, I'd've made a bit more of a song & dance of the facts, both that a new Movement of the work had been discovered, AND that it showed a radically new attitude to Form by Schubert, in that it repeated exactly the same Music that appeared in the First Movement.

If there was a second movement should it be renamed ‘Quartettsatzen’?

Also on the question of ‘Sounds’ I shall just continue using the more user-friendly radio iplayer until told it is no more!

[gurnemanz]

If there was a second movement should it be renamed ‘Quartettsatzen’?

A schoolmaster writes ... Plural would have an umlaut: "Quartettsätze".

[cloughie]

A schoolmaster writes ... Plural would have an umlaut: "Quartettsätze".

As someone with very limited German I am quite happily corrected - just wanted to make the point that if there is more than one....