Radio KERNEL

Radio KERNEL is deep in Italy's listing, at 373 of 400. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

Radio KERNEL has a zero in the directory's open count. It is the least interesting number on this page and the one most likely to be misread, so it is worth being plain: it measures traffic through radio-browser, not audience.

The country page counts pop among its commonest tags, and this station is one of the 10 entries in Italy behind that count. Worldwide the tag leads 343 stations, which makes the rail below a very wide shelf.

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.

Its audio comes straight from radio.quadracode.com, 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.