Absolute Radio

Name: Absolute Radio
Rating: 4.8 (63690 reviews)
Author: Bauer Media

Music

Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad

64K Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Music
Developer

Bauer Media
Language

EN
+ 7 More
Size

54
MB

Listen for free to all 10 of our radio stations, playing the best music from the 60s to the present day, as well as exclusive podcasts, documentaries, and guests from the likes of Liam Gallagher and Dave Grohl, to Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence. It’s the best way to listen to all things Absolute Radio, where real music matters. You can listen live and on-demand to all your favourite shows, podcasts and playlists in one place including our newly launched station, Absolute Radio Country. Never miss an exclusive interview, live session or show, as the ‘Absolute Radio Recommends’ feed keeps you in-the-know. Take control of your Absolute Radio listening experience - with the ‘Listen later’ queue, you can build your playlist and listen to the best of Absolute Radio when you want it. Listen to: » Absolute Radio » Absolute Radio 60s » Absolute Radio 70s » Absolute 80s » Absolute Radio 90s » Absolute Radio 00s » Absolute Radio 10s » Absolute Radio 20s » Absolute Classic Rock » Absolute Radio Country » The Frank Skinner Show podcast » The Jason Manford Show podcast » The Dave Berry Breakfast Show podcast » Exclusive documentaries » And much more! App features: » Intelligent streaming gives you CD quality on a WiFi connection and prevents audio-stuttering when you’re out and about. » At a glance, see what’s playing now on all 10 Absolute Radio stations. » Subscribe to your favourite shows and podcasts so you never miss a new episode in "My List" » Get your Absolute Radio fix in the recommends feed, which highlights all the best shows, competitions, tickets and events in one place. » Easily find your favourite shows and podcasts from Absolute Radio. » Listen now or save for later - Add episodes to your queue and listen when you want. » Sleep timer function. » Discover and listen to other radio stations, all in one app. We're always looking for ways to bring you even more - let us know what features you'd like. If you wish to get in touch, please do so by email (appsupport@bauermedia.co.uk) or via our Twitter @absoluteradio or Facebook www.facebook.com/absoluteradio and please do leave us a review if you like the app! Absolute Radio Premium terms and conditions Get a 30 day free trial to Absolute Radio Premium, after the 30 day free trial you will be charged £3.99/month. This can be cancelled at any time. All Absolute Radio account holders are entitled to a 30 day free trial. Terms & conditions: https://www.bauerlegal.co.uk/ Privacy policy: https://www.bauerlegal.co.uk/privacy-policy

Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

64K Ratings

Gutted!
21/11/2018

Symie
Absolutely brilliant app. Does exactly what it says on the tin!However, it needs to be said that Classic Rock plays almost the exact same tracks each evening!Originally I only listened to Classic Rock and it was always around 10 in the evening till about midnight. Within that time you could bet that you’d hear about 75% of the songs you’d heard the night before. I ended up changing to the main channel for a bit more variety.Only other gripe I have is that all the competitions, which are superb by the way, are mainly in the London area! I’m totally gutted because I’d love to take part in the majority concert based comps, plus all the “Wicks” ones, and the pub quiz ones. Actually I’d have a go at the lot as they really have some cracking competition prizes, but being North of the Border means I can only listen to the happy winning feckers and imagine how blinkin’ superb they must be feeling after scooping the prize they’d just got. Gutted!!!Anyhoo I gave 5 stars in the hope that they track me down and get me to an exclusive gig with Muse or Coldplay. In return I’d delete the part above about Classic Rock!
Gutted!
21/11/2018

Symie

Absolutely brilliant app. Does exactly what it says on the tin!However, it needs to be said that Classic Rock plays almost the exact same tracks each evening!Originally I only listened to Classic Rock and it was always around 10 in the evening till about midnight. Within that time you could bet that you’d hear about 75% of the songs you’d heard the night before. I ended up changing to the main channel for a bit more variety.Only other gripe I have is that all the competitions, which are superb by the way, are mainly in the London area! I’m totally gutted because I’d love to take part in the majority concert based comps, plus all the “Wicks” ones, and the pub quiz ones. Actually I’d have a go at the lot as they really have some cracking competition prizes, but being North of the Border means I can only listen to the happy winning feckers and imagine how blinkin’ superb they must be feeling after scooping the prize they’d just got. Gutted!!!Anyhoo I gave 5 stars in the hope that they track me down and get me to an exclusive gig with Muse or Coldplay. In return I’d delete the part above about Classic Rock!
Cuts-Out
27/03/2022

RobTMTC
I want to rate this app higher, and with a little tweaking I’d happily give it a big 5 stars because of the outstanding choice. BUT, if you briefly lose mobile reception signal, the app does not automatically continue playing once reception returns. Instead you have to shut the app down and re-open it again. This is a complete and utter bum every morning when I am on the tube going in and out of tunnels. I used to listen on the TuneIn radio app until Absolute Radio disappeared off of it. That app could manage it - no matter the gap in reception, it would just automatically pick the station back up again and continue playing once signal returned.Additionally with this app you get extra songs instead of adverts. This is good - but the songs aren’t listed on the Absolute Radio playlist and when listening via the app, it doesn’t tell you what song is playing (unlike the ‘normal’ tracks). As a result I couldn’t find a great track that I heard on Absolute for the first time yesterday and now I have no way of finding out what it was! I couldn’t catch all the lyrics either because I was on a bloody train and the signal cut-out after about a minute. By the time I regained signal and restarted the app, it was back on another song.

Developer Response
Hello Rob,Thank you for your rating and review. We’re really sorry you’ve experienced some frustrations while using our app, we hope we can fix this for you.If you would like to reach out to our support team, we can look into your query for you on appsupport@planetradio.co.uk (mailto:appsupport@planetradio.co.uk). Many thanks, Sophia
Cuts-Out
27/03/2022

RobTMTC

I want to rate this app higher, and with a little tweaking I’d happily give it a big 5 stars because of the outstanding choice. BUT, if you briefly lose mobile reception signal, the app does not automatically continue playing once reception returns. Instead you have to shut the app down and re-open it again. This is a complete and utter bum every morning when I am on the tube going in and out of tunnels. I used to listen on the TuneIn radio app until Absolute Radio disappeared off of it. That app could manage it - no matter the gap in reception, it would just automatically pick the station back up again and continue playing once signal returned.Additionally with this app you get extra songs instead of adverts. This is good - but the songs aren’t listed on the Absolute Radio playlist and when listening via the app, it doesn’t tell you what song is playing (unlike the ‘normal’ tracks). As a result I couldn’t find a great track that I heard on Absolute for the first time yesterday and now I have no way of finding out what it was! I couldn’t catch all the lyrics either because I was on a bloody train and the signal cut-out after about a minute. By the time I regained signal and restarted the app, it was back on another song.
Developer Response 29/03/2022
Hello Rob,Thank you for your rating and review. We’re really sorry you’ve experienced some frustrations while using our app, we hope we can fix this for you.If you would like to reach out to our support team, we can look into your query for you on appsupport@planetradio.co.uk (mailto:appsupport@planetradio.co.uk). Many thanks, Sophia
Everybody wants more
13/05/2017

pn507
I have been using the absolute app for a few years now. I access the site every weekend and most nights. It's great access to music when most radio stations go either off piste or stick on the evening loop tapes and serve out the same old tut night after night. The great thing about absolute is you get to select your decade and to some degree your genre. Take it to another level and. Exonerated a member (it's free) and you don't listen to as many ad's. Everybody wants more and so here it is, more.I mean Frank Skinner on a Saturday morning and Jason Manford on a Sunday morning, now everyone is trying a celebrity format at the weekends.... just not doing quite as good a job of it.I lived in Dublin for a while and I could access Absolute there on the app, I was away for a short break in Paris recently and it's there too, anywhere I go on holiday, it's there. My advice, download it, try it, if it's not for you delete it, but you won't, it's one of those apps that will creep up the pages and will soon be on your front screen, then the dilemma of which one does it replace .....
Everybody wants more
13/05/2017

pn507

I have been using the absolute app for a few years now. I access the site every weekend and most nights. It's great access to music when most radio stations go either off piste or stick on the evening loop tapes and serve out the same old tut night after night. The great thing about absolute is you get to select your decade and to some degree your genre. Take it to another level and. Exonerated a member (it's free) and you don't listen to as many ad's. Everybody wants more and so here it is, more.I mean Frank Skinner on a Saturday morning and Jason Manford on a Sunday morning, now everyone is trying a celebrity format at the weekends.... just not doing quite as good a job of it.I lived in Dublin for a while and I could access Absolute there on the app, I was away for a short break in Paris recently and it's there too, anywhere I go on holiday, it's there. My advice, download it, try it, if it's not for you delete it, but you won't, it's one of those apps that will creep up the pages and will soon be on your front screen, then the dilemma of which one does it replace .....
Disappointing changes
22/02/2019

andyhart21
I am an avid listener of Absolute in my car, but ever since the app changed a few months ago it has not worked anywhere near as well for me. My car stereo displays the track name and artist when my iPhone is connected via USB, and this used to work with the Absolute app too, however since the app changed it now displays the first song played for the entire duration of my journey. A small thing but annoying all the same. The worst thing however is that now if my phone loses data connection (which it does at exactly the same points in my journey every day) I now seem to have to manually restart the music by pressing play on my phone which I never used to have to do. I hoped these bugs would be sorted soon after the initial roll out but unfortunately not ☹️
Disappointing changes
22/02/2019

andyhart21

I am an avid listener of Absolute in my car, but ever since the app changed a few months ago it has not worked anywhere near as well for me. My car stereo displays the track name and artist when my iPhone is connected via USB, and this used to work with the Absolute app too, however since the app changed it now displays the first song played for the entire duration of my journey. A small thing but annoying all the same. The worst thing however is that now if my phone loses data connection (which it does at exactly the same points in my journey every day) I now seem to have to manually restart the music by pressing play on my phone which I never used to have to do. I hoped these bugs would be sorted soon after the initial roll out but unfortunately not ☹️

Various Improvements

Version 9.28.1

21 Jul

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