Web Rádio Fraternidade

This is one of the quieter entries in Brazil's listing, at 280 of 430. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

Web Rádio Fraternidade is the only station in Brazil whose first tag is espiritismo, 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 espiritismo station.

Web Rádio Fraternidade streams at 64 kbps against Brazil's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 55% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

Its audio comes straight from paineldj5.com.br:2100, an address unique to this entry in Brazil's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.