easy and italy

In Italy's ordering this is number 133 of 400, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

The open count against easy and italy is four, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

Twice the local median and then some: 1500 kbps where Italy's stations typically manage 128. Whether you can hear the difference depends entirely on what you are listening on, but the headroom is there.

The stream is OGG, which is unusual anywhere: Italy's listing is dominated by MP3. Formats outside the common three are typically a deliberate choice by a broadcaster who cares about the encoding chain, and they are also the ones most likely to give a browser trouble.

Its audio comes from futura.fm. One other station in Italy streams from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.