青海卫视伴音

The name breaks into two halves. Qinghai is the place, and the audio feed is the kind of service, so the entry describes itself before anything on this page does. The heading keeps the broadcaster's own spelling, in Chinese characters.

青海卫视伴音 is deep in China's listing, at 344 of 391. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

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.

The audio comes from piccpndali.v.myalicdn.com, and 34 other stations in China are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of China's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.

Of everything the directory lists in China, the entry this page reads closest to is 北京卫视伴音, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. The names say where each one is: this one names Qinghai and the other names Beijing. This entry records Tsinghai as the region it transmits from, and the other records no region at all.