Virgin Radio Romania

Position 9 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.

Only three entries in Romania put hip hop first. The tag is self-declared and inconsistent between countries, which is why the rail below is worth more as a way of wandering than as a filter.

On the same tag worldwide it is 2 of 25, which is inside the top quarter of every hip hop station the directory carries.

Virgin Radio Romania streams at 64 kbps against Romania's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 83% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

Where Romania's stations mostly use MP3, this one uses AAC. Worth a line only because it is a difference, and because the country page's format breakdown is one of the quicker ways to see which providers a national dial runs on.

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.