CBC Listen: Music & Podcasts

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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About this app

Listen to live CBC Radio, the best in CBC Podcasts and curated playlists from CBC Music with the free CBC Listen app.

Your local and national CBC Radio One and CBC Music shows are right at your fingertips, live from anywhere.

Listen to critically acclaimed series from Canada’s #1 podcaster with shows like Uncover, The Secret Life of Canada, Front Burner, and Someone Knows Something. Discover the best in true crime, investigative reporting, fiction and more.

Tune in to over 200 curated music streams featuring brand new releases from Canadian artists and different genres.

CBC Listen features:
• Live & On Demand CBC Radio
• New and Popular CBC Podcasts
• Hundreds of CBC Music Playlists
• 100% FREE, no fees or subscriptions
• Favourites Library for easy access
• Recommendations personalized just for you, based on your listening history
• Playlogs from CBC Music shows
• Reminders so you never miss a beat
• Podcast Downloads for Offline Listening
• Frequency Finder

*On Demand and Music Playlists are subject to geo-fencing.

Ratings and reviews

This negative review is meant to stimulate some action from CBC to fix this app. Problems: 1) when playing an episode of World Report it automatically plays the next version of the broadcast which is out of date - please stop this feature; 2) it isn't clear from any of the news podcasts which episode one is listening to; 3) if the news is live and midway through, you can't start from the beginning of an earlier broadcast episode as you used to be able to. The older version was much better.

3 things: 1) When playing live radio the stream will occasionally stop. Either it will show a loading circle or or will stop on its own entirely. 2) when playing certain radio programs (ex Marvin's room and front burner) I am either not able to play the episode at all with an error. Or I can play the shows but the playback bar won't let me fast forward the programs it just plays back to where I've already been listening. Even if I download the specific program still same issue.

Edit: (After the most recent update it began opeming. I will give it stars until I can test more.) My recently installed app on my Android phone will not open or connect. A pop-up keeps saying the app keeps stopping - something that is quit obvious. Rebooting the phone has no . effect. Hate to give it one star, but since it can't be used, this is the only option.

What's new

- Performance improvements and bug fixes.