Otvoreni Hot

In Croatia's ordering this is number 22 of 53, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

With two recorded opens, Otvoreni Hot sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Croatia's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

Otvoreni Hot streams at 48 kbps against Croatia's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 71% 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.

The stream is AAC. Croatia's dial is split across four formats rather than settled on one, with MP3 the commonest, so this station is on a well populated side of a genuinely mixed listing.

Its audio comes from stream.otvoreni.hr. Three other stations in Croatia stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.