Deutschlandfunk Kultur | DLF | AAC 192k

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

Position 51 of 1,409 in Germany. The ordering is a click count and nothing more, but at this depth it still separates stations meaningfully, which stops being true further down the same list.

Deutschlandfunk Kultur | DLF | AAC 192k has 37 recorded opens in the public directory, which is a real number by the standards of this data set. Most entries never reach double figures, so a count at this level means the stream has been found and played repeatedly by people using directory clients rather than the broadcaster's own site.

At 256 kbps, Deutschlandfunk Kultur | DLF | AAC 192k streams at more than double Germany's median of 128 kbps. That is a deliberate choice by whoever runs it: bandwidth is the recurring cost of an internet station, and a rate this far above the local norm is money spent on sounding better than the dial around it.

Its audio comes from st02.sslstream.dlf.de. Five 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.