Deutschlandfunk Nova | 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.

Deutschlandfunk Nova | DLF | OPUS 24k sits at 622 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.

With four recorded opens, Deutschlandfunk Nova | DLF | OPUS 24k sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Germany's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

The gap here is large: 24 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.

The stream is OGG, which is unusual anywhere: Germany's listing is dominated by MP3. Formats outside the common three are typically a deliberate choice by a broadcaster who cares about the encoding chain, and they are also the ones most likely to give a browser trouble.

Its audio comes from st03.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.