Deutschlandfunk | DLF | MP3 128k

Near the top of Germany's list, at 2 of 1,409. Positions this high tend to be stable between snapshots, which is more than can be said for the middle of a long national listing.

With 474 opens recorded, this is one of the directory's heavily played streams. That is the strongest thing the public data says about any station, and it is still a measure of traffic through one directory rather than of audience.

17 stations in Germany lead with culture and Deutschlandfunk | DLF | MP3 128k is one of them, though the tag does not make the country's headline list. Across the whole directory 86 stations use it first, so the rail below runs well past Germany.

Across every country, Deutschlandfunk | DLF | MP3 128k is 1 of the 86 stations leading with culture, by the same open count the country list uses.

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.

Their site is deutschlandfunk.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.