Lokura FM Rock Querétaro 104.9 FM

In Mexico's ordering this is number 263 of 444, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

The adult alternative corner of Mexico's dial is two stations deep in this snapshot. Small clusters like that are usually the most rewarding thing on a country page, because they are what the national broadcasters at the top of the list are not.

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.

24 of Mexico's entries are served from mdstrm.com, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.

Their address is lokura.fm. A .fm address says the broadcaster wanted a radio sounding domain, not that the station is in Micronesia, which is where that domain actually comes from.

Of everything the directory lists in Mexico, the entry this page reads closest to is Radio Fórmula, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. This entry is named for a number, one hundred and four point nine, and the other is not. They are filed in different parts of the country: this one under Queretaro, that one under Ciudad de México. The directory puts this stream at one hundred and ninety-four kilobits and the other at one hundred and thirty. The broadcaster tagged this entry adult alternative, alternative, alternative / indie, alternative rock, capital media, classic rock, lokura fm and mexico, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the 104.1, 104.1 fm, acustic, cdmx, ciudad de mexico, ciudad de méxico, ciudad mexico and entretenimiento tags and this one does not. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, lokura.fm and radioformula.com.mx.