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CBC Music Stations

  • February 21, 2026
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This is an ongoing issue where certain CBC Music regional stations disappear and are not accessible. I submitted questions here a year ago and contacted support. Recently tried SONOS Support again and they confirmed the issue …

“Indeed, I can see here that only Central, Mountain and Pacific are available at the moment and the ones you mentioned are not working.  So, it seems to be a general issue. I can report it forward to our team so that they can investigate however I cannot provide an exact timeframe for a solution as we don't know if it's an issue with our service or from CBC's side.”

They also said they did not have a way of keeping me informed of progress so my issue has kind gone into a black hole. But if others here are having the same issue (still) reporting to SONOS Support might help prioritize a solution.

Trying to connect from “Recently Played”

 

4 replies

Airgetlam
  • February 21, 2026

What did the CBC say, since they’re the ones who provide the streams? All Sonos does is point to the CBC’s servers.


Mr. T
  • February 21, 2026

Try playing the stations with either the desktop or a 3rd party app.


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  • Contributor I
  • February 21, 2026

Did not go directly to CBC but that’s a good suggestion. It also sounds like SONOS Support will try to determine who’s end the problem is coming from.

 

Desktop Sonos exhibits same problem. 3rd party apps have ads and generally suck.


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  • Enthusiast II
  • February 21, 2026

The CBC radio urls are listed here:

https://gist.github.com/nevillepark/d8358256e05a23250ad845a70776776e
 

You can add them as custom streams which should play the original content add free even though TuneIn is involved  (use the urls ending in m3u8) 

https://support.sonos.com/en-ca/article/use-tunein-to-add-internet-radio-station-urls-to-sonos

 

It is a bit of a pain to do this and may not be viable depending on how many you listen to but the cbc streams are like 100% up time through those links unlike through the Sonos integration.