Rádio Metropolitana 98.5 FM

In Brazil's ordering this is number 113 of 430, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

Rádio Metropolitana 98.5 FM has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in Brazil on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where Brazil'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.

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.