ORF Ö1 (290k HLS)

ORF Ö1 (290k HLS) is deep in Austria's listing, at 88 of 103. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

Twice the local median and then some: 339 kbps where Austria's stations typically manage 128. Whether you can hear the difference depends entirely on what you are listening on, but the headroom is there.

Where Austria's stations mostly use MP3, this one uses AAC. Worth a line only because it is a difference, and because the country page's format breakdown is one of the quicker ways to see which providers a national dial runs on.

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 orf-live-oe1.mdn.ors.at, which no other entry in Austria 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.