malayalammusic

malayalammusic is at 262 in a listing of 565. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

malayalammusic broadcasts in Malayalam from India. That is a minority language on the national dial, where Hindi leads, but not a small one: 56 stations in India in the directory carry Malayalam, which is a substantial second listing inside the first.

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.

The stream runs at 128 kbps, level with India's median. Bitrate stops being interesting once a station is at the local norm, and the useful question moves on to whether the stream stays up, which no snapshot can answer.

The audio comes from stream.zeno.fm, and 108 other stations in India are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of India's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.