Saurosoft Radio

In Italy's ordering this is number 187 of 400, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

The open count against Saurosoft Radio is three, 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.

The country page counts 80s among its commonest tags, and this station is one of the 7 entries in Italy behind that count. Worldwide the tag leads 131 stations, which makes the rail below a very wide shelf.

At 192 kbps the stream is on the better side of Italy's dial, where the median is 128 kbps. Not dramatically so, and bitrate is only one of several things that decide whether a stream sounds good, but it is the one the directory records.

The stream is served from streaming.saurosoftradio.it, which no other entry in Italy uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.