RMF 50s

RMF 50s is at 109 in a listing of 228. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

With four recorded opens, RMF 50s 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.

At 64 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on Poland's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

The format here is AAC+, against a listing for Poland 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 from rs101-krk.rmfstream.pl. One other station in Poland streams from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.

RMF 50s publishes at rmf.fm. Worth a note because .fm is a country domain that stopped meaning its country a long time ago: it is Micronesia's, and it is used by radio stations everywhere for the obvious reason.