兵团之声

Read as words rather than as a brand, the name says the voice of. That is the broadcaster's own description of the service, written in Chinese characters, and it is more specific than the tags the entry carries.

At position 280 of 391, this is one of the stations in China that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.

Full service is one of China's headline genres in this directory, and 兵团之声 is one of 27 stations there leading with it. The country hub prints the same tag near the top of its own list, so this station sits inside the country's main sound rather than off to one side.

No bitrate is recorded against this stream. It is a common gap: the value is scraped from the stream's headers and plenty of servers do not send them. Press play and your browser will tell you more in two seconds than the field would have.

The stream address on this entry points at lhttp.qtfm.cn, which is where 89 other stations in China are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.

Of everything the directory lists in China, the entry this page reads closest to is 浦江人民广播电台, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. Read as words rather than as a brand, this name says the voice of and that one says the people's broadcasting station. They are filed in different parts of the country: this one under Sinkiang, that one under Chekiang. The two streams are served from different addresses, lhttp.qtfm.cn for this one and lhttp-hw.qtfm.cn for the other.