Radio Jazeen Jazz

At position 295 of 400, this is one of the stations in Italy that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.

Radio Jazeen Jazz is the only station in Italy whose first tag is instrumental, 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 instrumental station.

The stream is encoded at 320 kbps, more than twice the 128 kbps median for Italy. Bitrate is the one quality figure the public directory carries, and on this entry it is unambiguous.

Radio Jazeen Jazz 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.

Its audio comes straight from nr15.newradio.it:9168, an address unique to this entry in Italy's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.