Deutschlandfunk Dokumente und Debatten | DLF | AAC 48k

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

Deutschlandfunk Dokumente und Debatten | DLF | AAC 48k sits at 510 of 1,409 in Germany's listing, in the body of the list rather than at either end. This is where most of a national dial actually lives, and it is the part a country hub's first fifty rows never reach.

Deutschlandfunk Dokumente und Debatten | DLF | AAC 48k streams at 48 kbps against Germany's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 62% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

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.

The stream is served from st04.sslstream.dlf.de, an address three 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.