Nostalgia

In Finland's listing Nostalgia lands at 8 of 70, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

Among 70 stations in Finland here, this is the only one that puts nostalgia first. The nostalgia rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where Finland'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 stream is AAC. Finland's dial is split across three formats rather than settled on one, with MP3 the commonest, so this station is on a well populated side of a genuinely mixed listing.

9 of Finland's entries are served from stream-redirect.bauermedia.fi, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.

The broadcaster publishes at radioplay.fi, on Finland's own country domain. A national domain is a small piece of evidence that the station is what the directory says it is, since these are the harder ones to register from somewhere else.