Urban FM

In Romania's listing Urban FM lands at 46 of 216, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

Four recorded opens in the public directory. That is a trace rather than a measurement, and it is the reason this page describes where the station sits rather than how popular it is.

Urban FM shares its leading tag, hip hop, with two other Romania entries. Across every country the directory has 25 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where Romania's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

The format here is AAC+, against a listing for Romania 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.

Urban FM streams from urbanfm.ro:8777. No other station in Romania is served from that address, and across the whole directory it appears one time in total.