Milano XR

This is one of the quieter entries in Italy's listing, at 269 of 400. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

With one recorded open, Milano XR sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Italy's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

6 stations in Italy lead with alternative rock and Milano XR is one of them, though the tag does not make the country's headline list. Across the whole directory 61 stations use it first, so the rail below runs well past Italy.

At 96 kbps, this sits below most of Italy's listing, whose median is 128 kbps. 70% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

The format here is AAC+, against a listing for Italy overwhelmingly made of MP3. Both play in a browser; the difference shows up in how much quality survives at a given bitrate, where AAC has the advantage at lower rates.

The stream is served from milanoxr.gatesweb.info:8443, which no other entry in Italy uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.