triple j (NSW)

Out of 140 entries in Australia, this one ranks 4. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

The directory counts 26 opens against this stream. That is well above Australia's median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.

triple j (NSW) streams at 252 kbps, above Australia's median of 128 kbps. It sits with the 50% of the country's stations that reach 128 kbps or better, which is the line this site uses for a stream worth listening to properly rather than in the background.

triple j (NSW) publishes an HLS stream. That is a modern and perfectly good way to broadcast, and it is also why the button on this page may not start it: HLS needs a player that can read a playlist and fetch segments, which a browser audio tag does not do on its own.

28 of Australia's entries are served from mediaserviceslive.akamaized.net, 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.