International radio

In Algeria's ordering this is number 21 of 52, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

International radio has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in Algeria on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

At 128 kbps this is a typical stream for Algeria by the one measure the directory carries.

Where Algeria's stations mostly use AAC, this one uses MP3. Worth a line only because it is a difference, and because the country page's format breakdown is one of the quicker ways to see which providers a national dial runs on.

Its audio comes straight from radio.jump.bg, an address unique to this entry in Algeria's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.

International radio publishes at xat.com, on a generic domain. Most stations do; it carries no information about location and it is linked here so you can check the source rather than take this page's word for anything.