Eska Poznań

Out of 228 entries in Poland, this one ranks 29. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

Eska Poznań streams at 64 kbps against Poland's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 81% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

Where Poland's stations mostly use MP3, this one uses AAC+. Worth a line only because it is a difference, and because the country page's format breakdown is one of the quicker ways to see which providers a national dial runs on.

The stream is served from ic2.smcdn.pl, an address six other entries in Poland use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.

Their site is eska.pl, a domain registered in Poland. Where a station's own address and its listed country agree, the entry is a little more trustworthy than one where they do not.