Deutschlandfunk | DLF | AAC 96k

The directory lists three streams in Germany under this name, told apart by a number alone. This page is number ninety-six. Nothing here is taken from the other two.

Out of 1,409 entries in Germany, this one ranks 47. 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.

At 39 recorded opens, Deutschlandfunk | DLF | AAC 96k is one of the streams that people actually reach through the public directory rather than through a station's own app. The count is the whole basis of the ranking on this site, and it is worth knowing that it measures directory traffic specifically.

The stream is 96 kbps where Germany'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.

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.

Its audio comes from st01.sslstream.dlf.de. Six other stations in Germany stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.