Radio-Canada's Ici Musique?

No reply yet from Radio Canada on Sonos integration.  Shouldn't be up to Sonos user community to pursue such things.

Meanwhile, I've purchased a Google Nest Mini at 1/10th the cost of my Sonos One. I'm now happily accessing my Radio Canada podcasts and music shows. I can also pair it with a Bluetooth speaker for better quality listening.

My current conclusion is that the Sonos system is good for the background elevator music crowd, including business and offices. For more personal curation of music and content, look elsewhere.  As it has a good quality speaker product, I'm hoping the situation changes with Sonos.

I think Google is evil. Lots of reasons for that opinion all of which I can’t be bothered to share here. But hey, here’s one: Google has systematically destroyed local newspapers. Just like Facebook!

Off topic anyway.

As for your statement re. “the background elevator crowd,” it is to laugh. Again, trolling. Or, at the very least, thread hijacking. FTR: I have many self-curated playlists, via my Macs or other Apple devices, as well as Spotify.  I must have thousands of CDs I no longer know what to do with. So we’re not all easy listening types.

Back to the topic at hand:

With respect to Radio-Canada, I got another form email the other day:

<Bonjour,

Ce message est pour vous informer que votre demande est toujours en cours et que nos équipes travaillent dessus. Nous sommes désolés pour ce délai de traitement.

Si votre problème est résolu ou que vous souhaitez ajouter des précisions à votre demande, vous pouvez simplement répondre à ce courriel.

L'équipe d'assistance de Radio-Canada>

So I am giving it time, while enjoying the three Ones, one Move, one TV Beam and one Five spread all over my condo (and condo balcony.)

Have a nice day.

Thanks for your reply, and sorry to offend. Statement of opinion is not trolling. I own a Sonos One, and wish to note its limitations relative to other offerings.  I paid a lot of money for one of these. Hopefully, this forum will allow prospective buyers to consider more thoroughly doing their homework than I have.

Thank you

Sorry for this slow response, but we have had Ici Musique available on our Sonos for a long time - I’d guess about 12 years.  I just checked and it is currently working.  The station is listed as “Ici Musique Montreal,” if that makes any difference. 

We may well have added it to our TuneIn favorite stations using its streaming URL, but if we did that I don’t see a quick way in the Sonos apps to reverse-engineer and tell you the URL that we used.  Under “Info and Options” for the station, the only two choices are Remove from My Radio Stations and Add Station to Sonos Favorites.  Is there a way?

Or is your issue (re-reading the original) that you can’t use TuneIn for some reason, so the fact that it’s available through TuneIn is unhelpful & you need it to be available under Sonos Radio? 

If that’s the question, sorry to misunderstand.  Under Sonos Radio, when I search for ICI Musique, I see ICI Musique versions for about ten Canadian locations, though oddly not Montreal, the one we listen to on TuneIn.  They are Toronto, Vancouver, Moncton, Trois-Rivieres, etc.  Maybe this was fixed as a result of your raising it? 

I am in the USA, fwiw.

One more point - the ICI Musique Trois-Rivieres station on Sonos Radio seems to be the exact same French-language voice & music I was hearing on ICI Musique Montreal on TuneIn, so maybe these are 2 names for same station.  The Sonos Radio/Trois-Rivieres version is about 15 seconds ahead, but adds advertisements to the stream that are not in the TuneIn/Montreal version. 

OK, I found it, thank you.

I am kind of disappointed it is not an app like CBC Radio & Music, Spotify and Siirus etc are. It’s just kind of a roundabout way via TuneIn. But I’ll live.

I went for the Toronto station because, what with government budget cuts to the public broadcaster, I expect the “FM” stations are all the same across Canada except maybe for local news and weather breaks. (I used to work at Rad-Can and CBC Montreal and Toronto.)

But I don’t think there are any news breaks anymore on the Ici Musique network. So, basically, it all depends what time zone you are in. You can always time shift by choosing the Vancouver (or whichever) station.

Thanks again

Sure.  You could add it to Sonos Favorites to make it a little less “roundabout”. 

I  tried but there seemed to be no way to do that