RSS Radio Santo Stefano

RSS Radio Santo Stefano sits in the tail of Italy's 400 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

One recorded open in the public directory. That is a trace rather than a measurement, and it is the reason this page describes where the station sits rather than how popular it is.

Among 400 stations in Italy here, this is the only one that puts indie first. The indie rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

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.

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.

RSS Radio Santo Stefano streams from nr8.newradio.it:19556. No other station in Italy is served from that address, and across the whole directory it appears one time in total.