Ilayaraja Lite Radio

Rank 381 of 565 in India. What that mostly measures is how many people have already found the station through this directory, which is a poor proxy for anything else and an honest one to publish.

India's directory presence is led by Hindi, with 161 stations broadcasting in Tamil behind it. Ilayaraja Lite Radio is one of that second group, large enough that the country hub prints it as its own bar rather than folding it into a remainder.

Tamil radio in this directory sits largely in Canada, Singapore and Sri Lanka, with 169 stations on the shelf in total. This page's station is one of the entries that make the shelf wider than any single country.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where India's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

Ilayaraja Lite Radio streams in AAC+ while most of India'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.

The stream is served from psrlive2.listenon.in, an address three other entries in India use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.