FIP (no pub)

FIP (no pub) is at position 31 of the 710 stations in France with pages here, inside the top quarter of the national listing. That is high enough to be reached by browsing rather than by searching, which is how most of these pages are actually found.

The directory counts 48 opens against this stream. That is well above France's median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.

The directory carries no bitrate for FIP (no pub). The field is filled from what the stream's own server reports when it is scanned, so an empty one usually means a server that answers without announcing itself rather than a bad stream. France's stations that do report come in at a median of 128 kbps, for whatever that is worth as a guess.

The stream is served as an HLS playlist, which is the format broadcasters use to switch bitrates on the fly and the one a plain browser audio element will not open. Nothing is wrong with the station; the player on this page simply cannot follow that kind of link without a library. The extension carries one and handles it.

The stream address on this entry points at stream.radiofrance.fr, which is where 35 other stations in France are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.

FIP (no pub) and France Culture are described by the directory in very nearly the same fields, which makes the differences between them worth stating rather than leaving to be inferred. This entry records no pub as the region it transmits from, and the other records no region at all. The broadcaster tagged this entry eclectic, m3u8, public radio and radio france, which the other entry is not tagged with. On recorded opens this entry sits higher in the country list than the other one does.