Radia.cz - Birds

Radia.cz - Birds sits in the tail of Czechia's 74 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

The open count against Radia.cz - Birds is two, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where Czechia's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

The format here is AAC, against a listing for Czechia overwhelmingly made of MP3. Both play in a browser; the difference shows up in how much quality survives at a given bitrate, where AAC has the advantage at lower rates.

The stream is served from ice2.radia.cz, an address one other entry in Czechia uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.