daBaba Radio

Position 286 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.

No language is recorded against this station. The field is optional in the public directory and a great many entries skip it, so an empty language says nothing about what you will hear when you press play. It does keep the station off the language shelves, since a shelf built on guesses would be worse than a shelf with holes.

No bitrate is recorded against this stream. It is a common gap: the value is scraped from the stream's headers and plenty of servers do not send them. Press play and your browser will tell you more in two seconds than the field would have.

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.

Its audio comes straight from dababaradio.com, an address unique to this entry in India's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.

daBaba Radio and Radio Chinar 90.4FM are described by the directory in very nearly the same fields, which makes the differences between them worth stating rather than leaving to be inferred. This entry records Bihar as the region it transmits from, and the other records no region at all. The two streams are served from different addresses, dababaradio.com for this one and d3413g2ooyoexr.cloudfront.net for the other. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, dababaradio.com and radiochinar.com.