Samba FM

In Brazil's listing Samba FM lands at 60 of 430, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

No language is recorded against this station. The field is optional in the public directory and a great many entries skip it, so an empty language says nothing about what you will hear when you press play. It does keep the station off the language shelves, since a shelf built on guesses would be worse than a shelf with holes.

Nothing else in Brazil's listing leads with samba. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

Encoded as AAC, one of the three formats Brazil's stations use. The country page breaks all of them out with counts.

The stream is served from hts01.brascast.com:8428, which no other entry in Brazil 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.

The broadcaster publishes at sambafm.com.br, on Brazil's own country domain. A national domain is a small piece of evidence that the station is what the directory says it is, since these are the harder ones to register from somewhere else.