Radio 5

Radio 5 is one of five entries in Poland whose names are the same but for a number, and this one's number is five. A broadcaster numbering its streams like that is separating feeds, not stations, so read the number as the part that matters.

This is one of the quieter entries in Poland's listing, at 185 of 228. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

With one recorded open, Radio 5 sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Poland's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

The stream is encoded at 256 kbps, more than twice the 128 kbps median for Poland. Bitrate is the one quality figure the public directory carries, and on this entry it is unambiguous.

The stream is served from streaming.radio5.com.pl:8888, which no other entry in Poland 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.

Their site is radio5.com.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.