Deutschlandfunk Kultur | DLF | OPUS 64k

Deutschlandfunk Kultur | DLF | OPUS 64k is one of two entries in Germany whose names are the same but for a number, and this one's number is sixty-four. A broadcaster numbering its streams like that is separating feeds, not stations, so read the number as the part that matters.

Deutschlandfunk Kultur | DLF | OPUS 64k is at 621 in a listing of 1,409. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

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.

An OGG stream on a MP3 dial. The public directory records the format as the server reports it, and formats this far off the beaten track usually indicate somebody running their own encoder rather than a hosted service.

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.