Ella Radio - Smooth Bossa Nova

In Germany's ordering this is number 427 of 1,409, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

Two stations in Germany lead with the tag bossa nova, and Ella Radio - Smooth Bossa Nova is one of them. That is a small enough group to hear end to end, and the tags are the broadcasters' own words rather than a classification imposed here.

192 kbps, which puts Ella Radio - Smooth Bossa Nova above the 128 kbps that a typical entry in Germany runs at.

The audio comes from stream.ella-radio.de, and 28 other stations in Germany are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of Germany's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.

Ella Radio - Smooth Bossa Nova keeps its own site at ella-radio.de. The address sits under Germany's country code, which lines up with where the directory says the station broadcasts from.