RPR1. Ludwigshafen

In Germany's ordering this is number 556 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 80er, shared with 30 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.

The directory carries no bitrate for RPR1. Ludwigshafen. 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.

The stream address on this entry points at stream.rpr1.de, which is where 16 other stations in Germany are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.

Of everything the directory lists in Germany, the entry this page reads closest to is Flux - 80s Channel (320), so it is worth setting out what separates the two. The number each one is named for is the difference between them: one here and three hundred and twenty there. They are filed in different parts of the country: this one under Rheinland-Pfalz, that one under Berlin. The two streams are served from different addresses, stream.rpr1.de for this one and streams.fluxfm.de for the other. The broadcaster tagged this entry 80er, 90er, news, pop, top40, traffic and weather, which the other entry is not tagged with. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, rpr1.de and fluxfm.de.