RTÉ Radio Player

When I was in bed and wish to listen to RTÉ podcast, I could simply open this app. It will give me some podcast straightforward. I could also check other RTÉ programmes.

The app is good and navigation is decent (but could be improved). The ads are frustrating and infuriating. If you lose connection for a second, switch to take a call or some other task that you commonly do on a mobile device, you are presented with an ad, and most likely the same ad that you heard when first opening the app. This seems to be a recent update as I don’t remember it ever being this bad. Was a four star, now a one star!

If you pause it starts playing ads again, very glitchy. Needs improvement

Please spend some money on this app and get it working properly. You have some excellent content, but you are failing to make it accessible.

A brilliant App. I love the plays - Sunday Miscellany and having just about everything at my fingertips. O use it every day 👍👍👍

<Update 4/5/‘24: Shocking behaviour! Autoplays even hours after I exited the app, causing great embarrassment. Noticed with iOS17/iPhone14. > Was a great app for years, even with a few annoying problems, such as: 1) unreliable link to iOS Play/Stop controls when screen locked, 2) even when streaming is switched off, when you exit a playback, streaming autoplays - and louder. WORSE, in 2021-03, they inserted a 30-second prelude ad DELAYING CONNECTION to live broadcasts (which already include ads). I keep missing live news headlines / programme starts. EVEN WORSE, the prelude ad PAUSES if you lock the screen or even begin to switch app! Streaming and everything else has to wait until you’ve listened to the entire 30 second ad! Forcing user behaviour change to compensate is annoying, or deal-breaking wherever non-adjustable environmental triggers (e.g. on the hour, etc.) drive traffic to the app. Update 2021-04-24: 1) I take 1 AirPod out, it pauses(!), I press Play, and there’s another ad before streaming resumes! 2) streaming stops when Stopwatch hits zero and it doesn’t resume - I do timed bursts and rests during workouts, so this app is useless.

I pay the tv/broadcast license. I have to listen to the live ads. Why are there more ads for the app?

You have ruined this App. If you play a programme and want to re-play it, it is not possible! Why you have done this I don’t understand… it doesn’t make sense. Very annoying and irritating. It’s like whoever designed the App hasn’t a clue about listening to radio stations or loving a particular program, so if I fall asleep at night listening to Movies & Musicals - Lyric; Saturday afternoon show, it’s impossible for me to replay it when I wake up again… 🤷🏻‍♀️

I use the app almost exclusively to listen back to Lyric FM programmes. I have previously complained about the poor sound quality where there is a click every five or six seconds, like a scratched vinyl record. It is particularly noticeable on quite vocal music but is there all the time. And once you hear, you can’t get it out of your head. I have also left developer feedback in the app itself, though I never got a response. Overall a poorly implemented app.

The RTE app has improved a lot but it still remains frustrating, in that it's still not possible to tap the programme presently playing and bring up all its details and information of what's playing, if its music on Lyric. If you looked at the BBC Player you could see what I mean. It could be very easy to access and informative. It isn't yet. It's just functionally informative.