Deutschlandfunk Kultur | DLF | OPUS 24k

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

Out of 1,409 entries in Germany, this one ranks 239. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

Deutschlandfunk Kultur | DLF | OPUS 24k streams at 24 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.

Deutschlandfunk Kultur | DLF | OPUS 24k streams in OGG rather than the MP3 that most of Germany's dial uses. Uncommon codecs are worth noticing for a practical reason as well as a nerdy one: browser support for them is thinner than for MP3 and AAC.

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.