A Radio for ACG & others

This is one of the quieter entries in Japan's listing, at 60 of 88. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

With three recorded opens, A Radio for ACG & others sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Japan's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

The stream is 96 kbps where Japan's median is 128. Below the country's middle, which usually points at an older encoder or a deliberate choice to stay light, and matters far more for music than for talk.

A Radio for ACG & others streams in AAC while most of Japan'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.

The stream is served from hkradio.myaddr.io, which no other entry in Japan 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.