ananthapurifm

Broadcasting in Malayalam from India, alongside 55 other stations there doing the same. Hindi is the country's commonest broadcast language in this directory, so this is the second shelf of a bilingual listing.

The shelf for the language holds 57 stations, led by Bahrain. A station like this one broadcasting from India is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

ananthapurifm streams at 95 kbps, under India's median of 128 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

The stream is served as an HLS playlist, which is the format broadcasters use to switch bitrates on the fly and the one a plain browser audio element will not open. Nothing is wrong with the station; the player on this page simply cannot follow that kind of link without a library. The extension carries one and handles it.

31 of India's entries are served from air.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.

The nearest thing to this entry in India is Kodaikanal FM. They are not the same station, and these are the facts the catalogue holds that tell them apart. This one is encoded as AAC and that one as AAC+, which is a difference a browser can hear about before you can. The directory puts this stream at ninety-five kilobits and the other at seventy-nine. The directory records this one broadcasting in Malayalam and that one in Tamil.