Aljazeera Arabic

Arabic from Qatar, one of only two such entries the directory holds for the country. The national listing leads with English, which is what makes this worth pointing at.

Where else Arabic is on air, according to the same snapshot: mostly Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Morocco. The shelf lists all 199 of them together, which is the view a country hub cannot give.

Nothing else in Qatar's listing leads with aljazeera. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

6324 kbps against Qatar's median of 128. Streams at this rate are the ones worth finding a good pair of headphones for, and they are uncommon: 50% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps at all.

The stream is AACH264, which is unusual anywhere: Qatar's listing is dominated by AAC+. Formats outside the common three are typically a deliberate choice by a broadcaster who cares about the encoding chain, and they are also the ones most likely to give a browser trouble.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.