221 Radio

The directory lists four streams in Argentina under this name, told apart by a number alone. This page is number two hundred and twenty-one. Nothing here is taken from the other three.

In Argentina's ordering this is number 94 of 171, 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.

With one recorded open, 221 Radio sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Argentina's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

221 Radio streams at 32 kbps against Argentina's median of 96, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 38% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

The stream is served from 01.solumedia.com.ar:8612, which no other entry in Argentina uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.