MILCpod

Rank 62 of 88 in Japan. What that mostly measures is how many people have already found the station through this directory, which is a poor proxy for anything else and an honest one to publish.

At 211 kbps the stream is on the better side of Japan'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 format here is AAC, against a listing for Japan 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 as an HLS playlist, which is the format broadcasters use to switch bitrates on the fly and the one a plain browser audio element will not open. Nothing is wrong with the station; the player on this page simply cannot follow that kind of link without a library. The extension carries one and handles it.

MILCpod streams from radio.milradio.info:9000. No other station in Japan is served from that address, and across the whole directory it appears one time in total.