P8 Pop (MP3 128k)

Position 31 of 66 puts this station in the middle of Norway's directory presence. The middle is worth browsing precisely because the ordering has stopped sorting by fame and has not yet stopped sorting at all.

With three recorded opens, P8 Pop (MP3 128k) sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Norway's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

The station's language is Norwegian, the commonest of the four the directory records for Norway. Language is one of the two axes this site indexes on, and the Norwegian shelf collects these stations across every country that carries them.

P8 Pop (MP3 128k) streams at 128 kbps, under Norway's median of 159 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

The stream is served from p8.p4groupaudio.com, which no other entry in Norway 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.

P8 Pop (MP3 128k) keeps its own site at p8pop.no. The address sits under Norway's country code, which lines up with where the directory says the station broadcasts from.