DE · Baden-Württemberg · German
SWR3 Visual Radio
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2147 kbps · AAC · Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
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What the directory records
Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- German
- Format
- AAC
- Stream
- HLS playlist
- Last catalogue check
- Stream answered
- Broadcaster
- swr3.de
In Germany's ordering this is number 467 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.
2147 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.
SWR3 Visual Radio 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.
SWR3 Visual Radio 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.
SWR3 Visual Radio streams from swrswr3vr-hls.akamaized.net. No other station in Germany is served from that address, and across the whole directory it appears one time in total.
- City or region
- Baden-Württemberg
- Country
- Germany
SWR3 Visual Radio is one of 3,099 playable stations the catalogue lists in Germany, and one of the smaller number that say where in the country they transmit from.
These are counts of what people did inside the public radio-browser catalogue and the apps that read it, over the whole life of the entry. They are not our own figures and they are not an audience measurement: most entries in this catalogue sit under five all-time plays, so a small number here means the catalogue has little to say about this station rather than that nobody listens to it.
Broadcast by SWR3 Visual Radio. Stream served directly by the broadcaster. Their own site is at www.swr3.de.
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