Mettaswara Campursari

In Indonesia's listing Mettaswara Campursari lands at 20 of 212, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

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

The campursari corner of Indonesia's dial is three stations deep in this snapshot. Small clusters like that are usually the most rewarding thing on a country page, because they are what the national broadcasters at the top of the list are not.

Mettaswara Campursari streams at 64 kbps, under Indonesia's median of 96 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

The stream address on this entry points at mettaswara.com:8700, which is where 14 other stations in Indonesia are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.