Urbana Play 104.3

Urbana Play 104.3 is one of two entries in Argentina sharing a name and differing by a number, and this one carries one hundred and four point three. That number is the only thing in the name that separates it from the rest of the set.

Urbana Play 104.3 is at 66 in a listing of 171. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

At 225 kbps, Urbana Play 104.3 streams at more than double Argentina's median of 96 kbps. That is a deliberate choice by whoever runs it: bandwidth is the recurring cost of an internet station, and a rate this far above the local norm is money spent on sounding better than the dial around it.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.

The stream is served from vmf.edge-apps.net, 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.