Published by Ewan Spence at 20:04 UTC, January 20th 2013

The ever popular BBC Radio Player has went through a name change as it reaches v3.0, with a view to extending the current 74 radio stations outside of the BBC offering and introducing other stations, likely from the commercial space, but potentially with a number of the UK community radio stations as well.

From the app directory:

Background audio playback (Windows Phone 7.5/8.0 only)

Choose from 74 BBC Radio stations

Now and next programme guide

Full integration with music + video hub

Playback continues under lock screen

Ability to block GSM-based streaming

Comprehensive programme caching

Dynamic server management

Links to the programme web page

Programme reminder function

Pinning station to start screen

Apart from the name change, there are no major changes in v3.0, although I suspect there has been some changes to the architecture to allow for the upcoming expansion of radio stations.

The trial version gives you access to the six main national stations (Radios 1, 2, 3, 4, Radio 4 Long Wave, and Radio 1xtra), while the full directory of BBC national, regional, and local stations will cost 99p/$1.29