Radio Musical 97.5

Held against the 22 stations in Costa Rica on this site, this one is in the leading three. The order is the directory's count of stream opens rather than anybody's judgement, which is worth saying because a leading position on a list like this reflects habit as much as anything else.

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.

Radio Musical 97.5 streams at 64 kbps against Costa Rica's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 54% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

Its audio comes straight from live.turadio.stream:7005, an address unique to this entry in Costa Rica'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.