Europa FM Romania

Position 5 of 216 in Romania. The ordering is a click count and nothing more, but at this depth it still separates stations meaningfully, which stops being true further down the same list.

Europa FM Romania has 23 recorded opens in the public directory, which is a real number by the standards of this data set. Most entries never reach double figures, so a count at this level means the stream has been found and played repeatedly by people using directory clients rather than the broadcaster's own site.

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

Europa FM Romania streams in AAC while most of Romania's dial is MP3. Codec choice is mostly invisible to a listener, and it is one of the clearest fingerprints of which hosting provider a station uses, since providers default their customers into a format and few customers ever change it.

The stream is served from astreaming.edi.ro:8443, an address one other entry in Romania uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.