DE · Germany · German
ARD Alpha HD
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2147 kbps · AAC · Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
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What the directory records
Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- German
- Format
- AAC
- Stream
- HLS playlist
- Last catalogue check
- Stream answered
- Broadcaster
- ardalpha.de
This is one of the quieter entries in Germany's listing, at 1185 of 1,409. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.
Twice the local median and then some: 2147 kbps where Germany's stations typically manage 128. Whether you can hear the difference depends entirely on what you are listening on, but the headroom is there.
Where Germany's stations mostly use MP3, this one uses AAC. Worth a line only because it is a difference, and because the country page's format breakdown is one of the quicker ways to see which providers a national dial runs on.
ARD Alpha HD publishes an HLS stream. That is a modern and perfectly good way to broadcast, and it is also why the button on this page may not start it: HLS needs a player that can read a playlist and fetch segments, which a browser audio tag does not do on its own.
The stream is served from mcdn.br.de, which no other entry in Germany uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.
These are counts of what people did inside the public radio-browser catalogue and the apps that read it, over the whole life of the entry. They are not our own figures and they are not an audience measurement: most entries in this catalogue sit under five all-time plays, so a small number here means the catalogue has little to say about this station rather than that nobody listens to it.
Broadcast by ARD Alpha HD. Stream served directly by the broadcaster. Their own site is at www.ardalpha.de.
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