Radio Dresden

In Germany's listing Radio Dresden lands at 144 of 1,409, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

The local corner of Germany's dial is three stations deep in this snapshot. Small clusters like that are usually the most rewarding thing on a country page, because they are what the national broadcasters at the top of the list are not.

On the same tag worldwide it is 2 of 27, which is inside the top quarter of every local station the directory carries.

The directory carries no bitrate for Radio Dresden. The field is filled from what the stream's own server reports when it is scanned, so an empty one usually means a server that answers without announcing itself rather than a bad stream. Germany's stations that do report come in at a median of 128 kbps, for whatever that is worth as a guess.

Where Germany's stations mostly use MP3, this one uses AAC. Worth a line only because it is a difference, and because the country page's format breakdown is one of the quicker ways to see which providers a national dial runs on.

Its audio comes from hermes.bcs-systems.de. Four 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.