Rádio Metropolitana 98.5 FM Light

Rádio Metropolitana 98.5 FM Light ranks 57 among 430 stations in Brazil. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

At 48 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on Brazil's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

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.

The audio comes from ice.fabricahost.com.br, and 13 other stations in Brazil are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of Brazil's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.

Their site is metropolitanafm.com.br, a domain registered in Brazil. Where a station's own address and its listed country agree, the entry is a little more trustworthy than one where they do not.