Sri Harmandir Sahib Live Kirtan

Sri Harmandir Sahib Live Kirtan 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.

This is a Punjabi station in a country whose directory presence is led by Hindi. 14 entries in India broadcast in Punjabi, which is a small group and a coherent one, and browsing it is a different experience from browsing the country.

There is no Punjabi shelf on this site: the language sits below the cut for one in the current snapshot. The country hub carries the station instead, which is the axis that covers every entry without exception.

At 96 kbps, this sits below most of India's listing, whose median is 128 kbps. 61% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

Sri Harmandir Sahib Live Kirtan 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.