MDR SACHSEN - Das Sachsenradio

In Germany's ordering this is number 656 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.

At 102 kbps, this sits below most of Germany's listing, whose median is 128 kbps. 62% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

MDR SACHSEN - Das Sachsenradio streams in AAC while most of Germany's dial is MP3. Codec choice is mostly invisible to a listener, and it is one of the clearest fingerprints of which hosting provider a station uses, since providers default their customers into a format and few customers ever change it.

MDR SACHSEN - Das Sachsenradio publishes an HLS stream. That is a modern and perfectly good way to broadcast, and it is also why the button on this page may not start it: HLS needs a player that can read a playlist and fetch segments, which a browser audio tag does not do on its own.

The stream is served from mdr-radio-hls.akamaized.net, an address five other entries in Germany use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.