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What's New
Some new features for upcoming events and competitions, like The Rock 2000!
Plus the usual boring bug fixes.
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
User 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.
I don't know if it's because of my phone (Pixel 8) but it keeps freezing. The ads never freeze, of course. It never shows the correct song name that's playing, and the "what's played" section is at least 20 minutes delayed so it's very frustrating trying to figure out the name of a new song. The "like" button doesn't work anymore either, if I "like" a song played in a particular show, that whole show retains that thumbs up.
How to Download rova – radio, music, podcasts APK
- Enter the package name
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