Radio Chinar 90.4FM

Position 295 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.

Radio Chinar 90.4FM has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in India on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

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.

The stream is served from d3413g2ooyoexr.cloudfront.net, which no other entry in India uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.

The nearest thing to this entry in India is daBaba Radio. They are not the same station, and these are the facts the catalogue holds that tell them apart. This entry is named for a number, ninety point four, and the other is not. The other entry records Bihar as its region, and the directory holds no region for this one. The two streams are served from different addresses, d3413g2ooyoexr.cloudfront.net for this one and dababaradio.com for the other. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, radiochinar.com and dababaradio.com.