M-1 Plius

In Lithuania's listing M-1 Plius lands at 9 of 38, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

At 192 kbps the stream is on the better side of Lithuania's dial, where the median is 160 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.

M-1 Plius streams in AAC+ while most of Lithuania'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.

Its audio comes from radio.m-1.fm. Two other stations in Lithuania stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.

The station's own site is pliusas.fm. The .fm domain has nothing to do with FM radio or with where a station is: it belongs to the Federated States of Micronesia and has been sold to broadcasters worldwide for years, so read it as branding rather than as a location.