britishindiantamilradio

Position 226 of 565 puts this station in the middle of India's directory presence. The middle is worth browsing precisely because the ordering has stopped sorting by fame and has not yet stopped sorting at all.

Broadcasting in Tamil from India, alongside 160 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.

Where else Tamil is on air, according to the same snapshot: mostly Canada, Singapore and Sri Lanka. The shelf lists all 169 of them together, which is the view a country hub cannot give.

128 kbps matches India's median almost exactly. Most stations cluster here because most of them are using the same handful of hosting providers with the same default settings.

The format here is AAC, against a listing for India overwhelmingly made of MP3. Both play in a browser; the difference shows up in how much quality survives at a given bitrate, where AAC has the advantage at lower rates.

The stream is served from hello.citrus3.com:2020, which no other entry in India uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.

Of everything the directory lists in India, the entry this page reads closest to is tamil-amuthu-madurai-radio, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. The two streams are served from different addresses, hello.citrus3.com:2020 for this one and stream-156.zeno.fm for the other. This one is encoded as AAC and that one as MP3, which is a difference a browser can hear about before you can.