Vinilo Mix

Vinilo Mix sits in the tail of Argentina's 171 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.

The country's dial has two sizeable languages on it and this station is on the smaller one. 32 entries in Argentina broadcast in English, against a listing whose commonest language is Spanish.

The shelf for the language holds 5,984 stations, led by United States. A station like this one broadcasting from Argentina is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

Three stations in Argentina lead with the tag 80s, and Vinilo Mix is one of them. That is a small enough group to hear end to end, and the tags are the broadcasters' own words rather than a classification imposed here.

The stream is 64 kbps where Argentina's median is 96. Below the country's middle, which usually points at an older encoder or a deliberate choice to stay light, and matters far more for music than for talk.

The stream is served from audiopanel.com.ar:8010, 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.