CBC Music (retired)

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

About this app

The CBC Music app has retired. Get the new CBC Listen app, discover the very best in Canadian audio with the CBC Listen app. It’s your one-stop destination for CBC Radio, CBC Podcasts, and CBC Music—all together in one free, easy to use app.

Hear all your favourite local and national CBC Radio One and CBC Music shows, live from anywhere, or catch up with on-demand show highlights*.

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International Users:
Due to the cost of digital music rights the amount of content available is limited at this time.

Ratings and reviews

I installed this app because I wanted to listen to Tom Allen's playlist. The app only has a few playlists. I appreciate that the cost of music rights limits the selection but at a certain point it is pointless to publish an app because content is so severely constrained. The limited number of playlists along with the inability to search (not just for playlists but maybe for a song or artist that appears on a list) makes the app a waste. I'll delete it and hope that a new version with greater functionality comes along. It's really too bad.

I've been addicted to this app for months because of the excellent variety (I'd like to see dance/ballroom/latin mixes and maybe a kids' mix). However, the latest version is very buggy, takes a long time to load and stalls between tracks--shades of the first streaming service CBC put together. I hope these bugs are squashed soon.

I really had high hopes for this app. I do love some of the CBC shows. The bad news is the sound quality of this app, it's pretty dreadful, internet radio can go from dreadful to quite good and compared to other radio apps I have this one is very compressed, lifeless, closed in sounding, leaning well towards the dreadful side. Hopefully the CBC can improve their sound quality.

What's new

The CBC Music app has retired. Get the new CBC Listen app, discover the very best in Canadian audio with the CBC Listen app. It’s your one-stop destination for CBC Radio, CBC Podcasts, and CBC Music—all together in one free, easy to use app.

Hear all your favourite local and national CBC Radio One and CBC Music shows, live from anywhere, or catch up with on-demand show highlights.