[Stooky Bill]

Rayo once it fully integrates the different platforms and Premium which can only be heard on the station apps currently should hopefully bring them more on a level with Global Player, which is easily the best commercial radio streaming app on the market currently.

Global Player is basically trying to emulate BBC Sounds down to the catch-up of radio shows and podcasts

I'm not sure if Rayo has been delayed or was just announced too early, but yes it will hopefully make things better. 

Problem they have compared with Global is that Global has 7 brands, all nice and neat. Looking at the list of stations in Planet Radio, there's loads and it's a right mess. Some are the same station just with a different brand - Free Radio and Hits Radio, a lot are just playlists rather than stations and some stations have multiple varients. All the versions of Absolute could fill a seperate platform themselves there's so many now. Definately needs a tidy, and a bit of a purge. 

That said I do like the way that they do split genres with the same programmes on Absolute, that's something I don't think Global have done 

Global Player is excellent, but like Sounds lacks a few functions I'm used to on other players - the ability to create a playlist of programmes or podcasts for example. The main annoyance with Global Player is that it isn't compatible with Android Auto, or presumably the Apple equivalent. That's where I'd use it the most

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