Radio 88 Jazz

Radio 88 Jazz sits at 206 of 565 in India's listing, in the body of the list rather than at either end. This is where most of a national dial actually lives, and it is the part a country hub's first fifty rows never reach.

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.

Radio 88 Jazz streams at 128 kbps, which is exactly where India's dial sits: the country's median is 128 kbps. Being unremarkable on this axis is the normal case and it is fine. 61% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better.

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.

109 of India's entries are served from stream.zeno.fm, 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.