Gold96fm

This is one of the quieter entries in Australia's listing, at 99 of 140. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

With one recorded open, Gold96fm sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Australia's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

The station's leading tag is classic rock, shared with 4 other entries in Australia. It is a well populated tag here without being one of the country's defining ones, which is a common and unremarkable place for a station to sit.

The gap here is large: 48 kbps where Australia's stations typically run 128. 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.

AAC+ here, on a dial that carries three different formats. A mixed codec listing usually means a country whose stations are hosted in several different places rather than through one dominant provider.

12 of Australia's entries are served from playerservices.streamtheworld.com, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.