StarFM

StarFM is deep in Latvia's listing, at 19 of 28. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

With one recorded open, StarFM sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Latvia's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

StarFM has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in Latvia on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

Two stations in Latvia lead with the tag folk, and StarFM is one of them. That is a small enough group to hear end to end, and the tags are the broadcasters' own words rather than a classification imposed here.

The stream is MP3. Latvia's dial is split across four formats rather than settled on one, with AAC the commonest, so this station is on a well populated side of a genuinely mixed listing.

The stream is served from live.advailo.com, an address one other entry in Latvia uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.