Radio Capital W L'Italia

Radio Capital W L'Italia is at position 64 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.

Tagged classic italian pop, along with 4 other stations in the country and 6 across the directory.

Radio Capital W L'Italia streams in AAC while most of Italy's dial is MP3. Codec choice is mostly invisible to a listener, and it is one of the clearest fingerprints of which hosting provider a station uses, since providers default their customers into a format and few customers ever change it.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.

19 of Italy's entries are served from 4c4b867c89244861ac216426883d1ad0.msvdn.net, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.

The nearest thing to this entry in Italy is Deejay 4 Christmas. They are not the same station, and these are the facts the catalogue holds that tell them apart. This entry records Lombardia as the region it transmits from, and the other records no region at all. A bitrate is recorded against this stream and none against the other, so only one of the two pages can draw the meter. The broadcaster tagged this entry classic italian pop, italian, italian music, italian oldies, italian pop and musica italiana, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the christmas songs and seasonal tags and this one does not. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, capital.it and deejay.it.