AIDa radio Flac

Out of 1,409 entries in Germany, this one ranks 233. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

Among 1,409 stations in Germany here, this is the only one that puts holiday first. The holiday rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

The stream is encoded at 2000 kbps, more than twice the 128 kbps median for Germany. Bitrate is the one quality figure the public directory carries, and on this entry it is unambiguous.

AIDa radio Flac streams in OGG rather than the MP3 that most of Germany's dial uses. Uncommon codecs are worth noticing for a practical reason as well as a nerdy one: browser support for them is thinner than for MP3 and AAC.

Its audio comes straight from cdn05.radio.cloud:8128, an address unique to this entry in Germany's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.

Their site is aidaradio.de, a domain registered in Germany. Where a station's own address and its listed country agree, the entry is a little more trustworthy than one where they do not.