1FM Molde

1FM Molde sits in the tail of Norway's 66 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

No opens have been recorded against 1FM Molde in the public directory. Plenty of working stations sit at zero, because the count only rises when somebody plays the stream from a client that reports back, and most listening never touches the directory at all.

At 128 kbps, this sits below most of Norway's listing, whose median is 159 kbps. 87% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

The format here is AAC, against a listing for Norway 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.

Its audio comes straight from s2.radio.co, an address unique to this entry in Norway's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.