Radio Ranchera

In El Salvador's ordering this is number 8 of 25, 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 four recorded opens, Radio Ranchera sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in El Salvador's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

The directory records no language for Radio Ranchera. That gap is common and it is upstream of this site: broadcasters fill the field or they do not, and roughly a third of the stations with pages here have left it empty. It means the station appears on its country hub and not on any language shelf, which is the one place the omission costs it.

The stream is 96 kbps where El Salvador's median is 128. Below the country's middle, which usually points at an older encoder or a deliberate choice to stay light, and matters far more for music than for talk.

The format here is AAC, against a listing for El Salvador 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.

Its audio comes from sp4.colombiatelecom.com.co. Three other stations in El Salvador stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.