Deutschlandfunk Kultur | AAC 48 kbit/s

One word in the name is ordinary German rather than branding: Kultur is culture. Worth a line for anyone reading a list of stations in a language they do not have.

Deutschlandfunk Kultur | AAC 48 kbit/s ranks 316 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.

At 64 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on Germany's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

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 st02.sslstream.dlf.de, an address five 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.

The broadcaster publishes at deutschlandfunkkultur.de, on Germany's own country domain. A national domain is a small piece of evidence that the station is what the directory says it is, since these are the harder ones to register from somewhere else.