Radio Club 80 Trance FLAC

Out of 99 entries in Chile, this one ranks 7. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

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 Chile's listing leads with trance. 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.

6144 kbps against Chile's median of 128. Streams at this rate are the ones worth finding a good pair of headphones for, and they are uncommon: 75% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps at all.

An OGG stream on a MP3 dial. The public directory records the format as the server reports it, and formats this far off the beaten track usually indicate somebody running their own encoder rather than a hosted service.

Its audio comes straight from stream.radioclub80.cl:8052, an address unique to this entry in Chile'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.