98.5 FM Montreal

Rank 206 of 259 in Canada. What that mostly measures is how many people have already found the station through this directory, which is a poor proxy for anything else and an honest one to publish.

98.5 FM Montreal has a zero in the directory's open count. It is the least interesting number on this page and the one most likely to be misread, so it is worth being plain: it measures traffic through radio-browser, not audience.

The directory carries no bitrate for 98.5 FM Montreal. The field is filled from what the stream's own server reports when it is scanned, so an empty one usually means a server that answers without announcing itself rather than a bad stream. Canada's stations that do report come in at a median of 96 kbps, for whatever that is worth as a guess.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.

Its audio comes straight from 14133.live.streamtheworld.com, an address unique to this entry in Canada'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.