Deutschlandfunk | DLF | OPUS 64k

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

Deutschlandfunk | DLF | OPUS 64k ranks 93 among 1,409 stations in Germany. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

The directory counts 23 opens against this stream. That is well above Germany'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 gap here is large: 64 kbps where Germany's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

The stream is OGG, which is unusual anywhere: Germany's listing is dominated by MP3. Formats outside the common three are typically a deliberate choice by a broadcaster who cares about the encoding chain, and they are also the ones most likely to give a browser trouble.

The stream is served from st01.sslstream.dlf.de, an address six other entries in Germany use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.