Completely baffling there’s still no way to sort or organise Favorites, except for Recently Added. Most users will obviously add the most important services first, which therefore don’t show up on the home page over time. This is UX 101. Can someone please let us know if there’s any chance this is going to be changed?
Please Allow us to manually edit and organise the list!
Yes, +1 from me for this feature request, although I use my ‘Favorites’ mostly just for Artists. In the early days I removed all and re-added them in (reverse) alphabetical order, but that was knowing I would be keeping things fairly static until a sort-order feature was perhaps introduced.
I also would like to be able to sort the installed music services too, instead of, or aswell as, having just a single preferred MSP.
Artists are one thing, but I most often want to listen to one of 4 or 5 radio stations. e.g., I come into the kitchen, I want to hear the 1 o’clock news on BBC Radio 4. I have to boot the app. Wait. Wait. Wait. Loads finally. Can’t find the wifi. Then finds it.
Now I get a list of Favorites at the top. The main radio station in the UK isn’t there, even though it’s the MOST LISTENED TO THING in my house. It’s buried in a list of radio stations that I can’t access without passing through one, then two menus, and then scrolling along a sideswiping list. And then finally I find it.
I press play. I wait. It starts playing upstairs. I switch to the kitchen. Back to the menus I go. Eventually I find it again.
I press play. Even though it’s already playing upstairs, I wait. I wait. Eventually it starts. I’ve missed the headlines.
Is this the future we were promised?
Artists are one thing, but I most often want to listen to one of 4 or 5 radio stations. e.g., I come into the kitchen, I want to hear the 1 o’clock news on BBC Radio 4. I have to boot the app. Wait. Wait. Wait. Loads finally. Can’t find the wifi. Then finds it.
Now I get a list of Favorites at the top. The main radio station in the UK isn’t there, even though it’s the MOST LISTENED TO THING in my house. It’s buried in a list of radio stations that I can’t access without passing through one, then two menus, and then scrolling along a sideswiping list. And then finally I find it.
I press play. I wait. It starts playing upstairs. I switch to the kitchen. Back to the menus I go. Eventually I find it again.
I press play. Even though it’s already playing upstairs, I wait. I wait. Eventually it starts. I’ve missed the headlines.
Is this the future we were promised?
I’m not sure what delays you are referring to, but anyway, because Radio 4 is only one-step or so, inside the ‘BBC Sounds’ Service, I personally would not use that as a shortcut to my own Favorites, but it’s each to their own, i guess. To switch the playing station/music between rooms though, (say from Main Bedroom to Kitchen, just as an example), you could just use the App ‘Room Switcher’. In the example attached - I have not purposely used the ‘Room Switcher’ to switch rooms, but initially I chose to group them and then switch, and it’s still really quick to do that, but it can all be done in just one step only, simply by selecting another room(s) and deselecting the current co-ordinator/playing room.
As you can perhaps see in the attachment in my previous post, showing my old iPhone XR controller - I begin by selecting the Main Bedroom and play Radio 4 to that room. I then group the Main Bedroom with the Kitchen to play on both rooms, but I could have easily just simply ‘switched’ the playing radio station to play on the Kitchen room only, rather than grouping it, by selecting the Kitchen and deselecting the Main Bedroom. Either way, even grouping the rooms together and ungrouping the Main Bedroom afterwards, it is still reasonably fast, but obviously just not as quick as ‘switching’ rooms in one single step.
I hope that assists.
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