RNZ

RNZ is an excellent source of NZ and Pacific news, and it’s great to have it all present in one app. Just a few frustrations: The ‘RNZ Player’ screen conceals the iOS status bar, so when the audio stream cuts out it’s not obvious if it was a signal strength issue or something else. It also hides the clock in the status bar. There are no space constraints so I just don’t understand this user-hostile design decision. Also, the app is not optimised for iPad; and the play/stop button icons are so small that from across the room you can’t tell the player status (again, frustrating for troubleshooting when the stream cuts out).

Love the app, we are unable to get RNZ on the radio where we live but enjoy being able to use the app to keep up with what is happening in NZ. Just lately we have noticed that the playback will often jump back a few minutes from the current live stream and then after some time jump forward. This has only started happening in the last few weeks so am assuming it’s a buffering problem, but wondered if you were aware of it? FYI Our internet connection is fibre . Thanks for the great app.

I use the RNZ app every day to create and download a playlist to accompany me in my daily life. Very sadly though, I can’t access the content I have downloaded when I’m out of cell range (ie walking in the wops or overseas). The app won’t let me open it saying ‘oops a problem (or somesuch) try again later’ !!! Why? I would’ve thought that’s the very time when you would be using downloaded content?

Great app - I use it all the time. Good for text articles, live radio, podcasts and on-demand clips from all the shows. The ability to add items to a playlist and download locally is really good. Great to pull a bunch of short clips together from Morning Report, Nine to Noon or Checkpoint and download them before getting on a plane. By the time you land you’re all caught up on the news of the day.

A well-written source for actual NZ news that’s not full of rubbish articles and mangled English. One improvement I’d love to see is an iPad-optimized version. My other very minor gripe is that when returning from an article to the main page, there’s an annoying pause and flicker as the page refreshes. It doesn’t happen in the ‘Top News’ section but does in other sections.