קול פליי | kol-play

קול פליי | kol-play is at 31 in a listing of 68. 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.

With three recorded opens, קול פליי | kol-play sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Israel's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

At 64 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on Israel's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

AAC+ here, on a dial that carries three different formats. A mixed codec listing usually means a country whose stations are hosted in several different places rather than through one dominant provider.

The audio comes from cdn.cybercdn.live, and 10 other stations in Israel 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 Israel's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.