MDR Klassik MP3 256

In Germany's ordering this is number 537 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.

The station's leading tag is classical, shared with 20 other entries in Germany. It is a well populated tag here without being one of the country's defining ones, which is a common and unremarkable place for a station to sit.

256 kbps against Germany's median of 128. Streams at this rate are the ones worth finding a good pair of headphones for, and they are uncommon: 62% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps at all.

Its audio comes straight from mdr-284350-0.sslcast.mdr.de, an address unique to this entry in Germany's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.

The broadcaster publishes at mdr.de, on Germany's own country domain. A national domain is a small piece of evidence that the station is what the directory says it is, since these are the harder ones to register from somewhere else.