RTL 102.5 [Mobile 48kbps]

At position 247 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.

The open count against RTL 102.5 [Mobile 48kbps] is two, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

RTL 102.5 [Mobile 48kbps] streams at 96 kbps, under Italy's median of 128 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

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 streamingv2.shoutcast.com, an address six other entries in Italy use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.