Retro FM Disco

Out of 28 entries in Latvia, this one ranks 7. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

No language is recorded against this station. The field is optional in the public directory and a great many entries skip it, so an empty language says nothing about what you will hear when you press play. It does keep the station off the language shelves, since a shelf built on guesses would be worse than a shelf with holes.

112 kbps matches Latvia's median almost exactly. Most stations cluster here because most of them are using the same handful of hosting providers with the same default settings.

Encoded as MP3, one of the four formats Latvia's stations use. The country page breaks all of them out with counts.

The stream is served from 22653.live.streamtheworld.com, which no other entry in Latvia 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.

Their site is retrofm.lv, a domain registered in Latvia. Where a station's own address and its listed country agree, the entry is a little more trustworthy than one where they do not.