rova – radio, music, podcasts

MediaWorks Holdings

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About this app

The all-new rova is here – our biggest update yet!
We’ve reimagined rova with an all new design and richer features - listen, watch, read, and win hundreds of competitions – all in one place.
Still the best and easiest way to stream your favourite NZ radio stations, now with more ways to discover, enjoy and connect with what’s happening.

What’s new and what’s good:

Live Radio The best experience for the stations and shows you know and love: The Rock, George FM, The Edge, The Sound, Channel X, Mai FM, Magic, The Breeze, More FM, Humm FM, RNZ National, Sport Nation, REX, Tarana and more.

Podcasts: Listen to all your go-to shows with the best podcasts from NZ and around the world, plus the best experience for rova originals with a full depth back catalogue of Not For Radio and your favourite radio catch up shows.

Video:
Watch shorts from your favourite radio shows, podcasts and personalities.

Mood-Based Music Playlists
 Hit play on curated playlists made for whatever mood you’re in – chilled, upbeat, throwbacks and more.

Competitions
 Find and enter heaps of competitions in seconds for awesome prizes.

Events & Tickets
 Discover events, concerts and festivals and find tickets

Entertainment, News & Sport Stories
 Read trending takes, hot topics, and fresh opinion pieces all in one place.

In-Car Listening, Sorted
 Connect via Apple CarPlay, Android Auto or Bluetooth.

Smart Device Ready
 Fire up rova on your Sonos, Alexa, Bluetooth & Airplay.

rova users the following foreground services

Other

- run foreground service with the type 'mediaPlayback' to allow access to control playing and stopping of music in the foreground when the device is locked or screen has gone to sleep

Ratings and reviews

There have been massive improvements getting this closer to what we had before it was broken. It still keeps your screen on for no reason, which runs down your battery unnecessarily, and the current song does not update consistently, otherwise well done team on the improvements.

i can see alot of effort has gone in to try make things better. but usability has become way worse. it used to take 30 seconds to get my favorite radio station playing. now it takes multiple clicks and a bunch of waiting taking 5mins to get it going. it used to auto play on start up and auto stop on bluetooth disconnect now it doesnt. songs and conversations keep cutting off short. and sometimes the entire station just cuts off and stops. i cant use this anymore coz of all the above

Functionality is different on Android compared to iOS, which is disappointing. For podcasts saved in the library, I have to open the app, tap on library, tap on podcasts, go back, tap on podcasts, then tap on the podcast icon to open it. If I don't do this, the podcast won't open. It takes two attempts. This doesn't happen on my iPad. Finally, none of your saved stations etc. appear when you open the app in Android Auto, which almost defeats the point of having saved stations and podcasts etc.

What’s new

Some new features for upcoming events and competitions, like The Rock 2000!
Plus the usual boring bug fixes.