Deejay One Two One Two

Deejay One Two One Two is at position 94 of the 400 stations in Italy with pages here, inside the top quarter of the national listing. That is high enough to be reached by browsing rather than by searching, which is how most of these pages are actually found.

Deejay One Two One Two is the only station in Italy whose first tag is classic hip hop, out of 400 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Italy does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only classic hip hop station.

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 audio comes from 4c4b867c89244861ac216426883d1ad0.msvdn.net, and 18 other stations in Italy 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 Italy's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.

Deejay One Two One Two and RTL 102.5 Disco are described by the directory in very nearly the same fields, which makes the differences between them worth stating rather than leaving to be inferred. They are filed in different parts of the country: this one under Lombardia, that one under Milano. The two streams are served from different addresses, 4c4b867c89244861ac216426883d1ad0.msvdn.net for this one and dd782ed59e2a4e86aabf6fc508674b59.msvdn.net for the other. The directory puts this stream at one hundred and twenty-eight kilobits and the other at one hundred and ninety-two. The broadcaster tagged this entry classic hip hop, hip hop, hip-hop, hip-hop and rap oldies, hiphop, rap and trap, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the club, dance, electronic dance music, eurodance and house tags and this one does not. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, deejay.it and play.rtl.it.