In development

There's some puzzlement amongst people who should know about why the new BBC Sounds app didn't adopt some popular functionalities of iPlayer Radio.

Missing at launch stage - Car Play integration, Chromecast, sleep and alarm settings.

And the 'Listen Without Limits' promise seems to have been broken, according to one new user...

"I've downloaded last Monday's R3 Lunchtime Concert. On Sounds this is 62mb; on iPlayer Radio it is 144mb. Why is the Sounds download of such inferior quality ?"

The Sounds team themselves seem to recognise there are things missing, as this section of their customer survey notes...