Rádio MEC FM

Position 152 of 430 puts this station in the middle of Brazil's directory presence. The middle is worth browsing precisely because the ordering has stopped sorting by fame and has not yet stopped sorting at all.

Rádio MEC FM is the only station in Brazil whose first tag is chorinho, out of 430 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Brazil does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only chorinho station.

The directory carries no bitrate for Rádio MEC FM. The field is filled from what the stream's own server reports when it is scanned, so an empty one usually means a server that answers without announcing itself rather than a bad stream. Brazil's stations that do report come in at a median of 128 kbps, for whatever that is worth as a guess.

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.