The BBC's approach to Sounds is a mix of what seems like pathetic desperation and/or contempt for users. It looks not so much "Build Web Products that meet user needs" as "build a product and when not enough people use it, force them to". They don't even hide it much. They have more than one webpage on which they literally state "We want more people to use BBC Sounds" as reason for messing with MP3 downloads of popular topical shows https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/articles/2022/bbc-sounds-the-best-and-first-place-to-listen https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/questions/programme-availability/sounds-exclusives This is nearly four years after Sounds was launched, so it had had plenty of time to acquire users by way of being something people want to use. Notice how they haven't simply discontinued the MP3 downloads, so they're not saving themselves any work, if anything they've created work by having to implement delaying release by 28 days. They did make an attempt to sell the change as an exciting new development which benefits you, the user, with drivel such as "This gives licence fee payers even more value", and enthusiastic spiel in the MP3s prior to the change trying to sell it as a good thing that soon you will be able to listen to the show first in BBC Sounds, even though it is a change which makes things worse for lots of users and makes things better for exactly zero users. After forcing people to use Sounds, they're publishing self congratulatory articles about how more people than ever are using it https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2022/record-4-53-million-use-bbc-sounds-during-week-following-mini-budget The BBC Radio app had an alarm function which I used and worked just fine for years. The BBC Sounds app does not have a Radio function because apparently alarm functions are difficult https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/questions/features/alarm-clock Shortly after the BBC actively broke the Radio app to force people to use Sounds instead, I found the TuneIn app has an alarm function. Shortly after I started using TuneIn to wake up to BBC radio the BBC stopped making their streams available on TuneIn, I guess because they want people to use Sounds.