AshiyaRadio〜アシヤ・ラヂヲ

AshiyaRadio〜アシヤ・ラヂヲ sits at 37 of 88 in Japan's listing, in the body of the list rather than at either end. This is where most of a national dial actually lives, and it is the part a country hub's first fifty rows never reach.

Among 88 stations in Japan here, this is the only one that puts bossa nova first. The bossa nova rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

AshiyaRadio〜アシヤ・ラヂヲ streams at 192 kbps, above Japan's median of 128 kbps. It sits with the 65% of the country's stations that reach 128 kbps or better, which is the line this site uses for a stream worth listening to properly rather than in the background.

AshiyaRadio〜アシヤ・ラヂヲ 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.

AshiyaRadio〜アシヤ・ラヂヲ publishes at ashiya.radio. A .radio address is not open registration; the registry limits it to broadcasters and related organisations, so it is one of the few domains that says something verifiable about who owns it.