Kodaikanal FM

Kodaikanal FM sits in the tail of India's 565 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

The country's dial has two sizeable languages on it and this station is on the smaller one. 161 entries in India broadcast in Tamil, against a listing whose commonest language is Hindi.

The Tamil shelf on this site collects every station in the language regardless of where it transmits from, and the directory's Tamil entries are concentrated in Canada, Singapore and Sri Lanka. Reading the shelf next to this page is the quickest way to see how far the language's dial actually reaches.

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 ananthapurifm. 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 seventy-nine kilobits and the other at ninety-five. The directory records this one broadcasting in Tamil and that one in Malayalam.