Radio Canada Ici Musique Alberta (Edmonton, AB)

Radio Canada Ici Musique Alberta (Edmonton, AB) sits in the tail of Canada's 259 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

Canada's directory presence is led by English, with 94 stations broadcasting in French behind it. Radio Canada Ici Musique Alberta (Edmonton, AB) is one of that second group, large enough that the country hub prints it as its own bar rather than folding it into a remainder.

The shelf for the language holds 1,384 stations, led by France. A station like this one broadcasting from Canada is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

The gap here is large: 48 kbps where Canada's stations typically run 96. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

The stream is served as an HLS playlist, which is the format broadcasters use to switch bitrates on the fly and the one a plain browser audio element will not open. Nothing is wrong with the station; the player on this page simply cannot follow that kind of link without a library. The extension carries one and handles it.