Tunein Radio is great for live radio and even podcasts. iPlayer is for Listen or View again.

I was most keen to use iPlayer for radio listening. For this purpose it is laugably bad:

- Sound stops if you open any other app while listening.
- Sound stops even if you let the screen rotate!
- Sound stops of you turn screen off to save battery.
- If you close app, loses it's place and you have to find the programme again.
- Needs a high end phone that can run flash just to stream audio!

Oddly, the Apple app has practically none of the above problems. How very cosy between BBC & Apple! But all Apple products are expensive.

So if you want your phone to handle iPlayer properly around the house, you are faced with:

A £500 bill from Apple and a rather out of date form factor, i.e. quite a large heavy phone.
or
A £220+ bill for Android, and then get an unbelievably buggy app with no prospect ever for a fixes.

Really not fit for purpose.

I think BBC is breaking the terms of it's charter by not making it's media available on budget devices to UK license payers, when technically it is perfectly possible, so I'm looking into a way to complain the the BBC Trust.

I think its rubbish for the following reasons:

Audio goes out of sync after a while watching.

Wont let me play over 3G despite the fact I have an unlimited plan.

Useless, sub par developers and/or silly restrictions made by the BBC is what it boils down to. The Sky go, and the IRB World Cup app were and are great for streaming fmv so there is absolutely no excuse for the shortcomings in the iplayer app.

Great to see iplayer now working over 3G, although 'working' might be an overstatement. 'Buffering', more like.

Whilst we're comparing to TuneIn, 9/10 times i can't seem to 'listen again' on it, it just tries to connect for 30 secs or so then decided it can't. Like the iPlayer, when it works, it's great.

Like you I say great to the update to Iplayer but with Tunein is the problem with Tunein or the radio station?
I can listen to some stations on Tunein for 3-4 hours with no problems but other stations are constantly stop starting.