Radio Veselina

Among 71 stations in Bulgaria with pages here, this one is opened most often. Being first on that list is worth knowing mostly because it says where other listeners started, which is a better opening move than an alphabet.

The directory counts 27 opens against this stream. That is well above Bulgaria's median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.

Radio Veselina streams at 105 kbps, under Bulgaria's median of 128 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

The stream is served as an HLS playlist, which is the format broadcasters use to switch bitrates on the fly and the one a plain browser audio element will not open. Nothing is wrong with the station; the player on this page simply cannot follow that kind of link without a library. The extension carries one and handles it.

Its audio comes from bss1.neterra.tv. Two other stations in Bulgaria stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.