Звезда 95.6 FM

In Russia's listing Звезда 95.6 FM lands at 97 of 471, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

Among 471 stations in Russia here, this is the only one that puts 32 kbps first. The 32 kbps rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

The gap here is large: 32 kbps where Russia'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.

Encoded as AAC+, one of the three formats Russia's stations use. The country page breaks all of them out with counts.

The stream is served from radio.mediacdn.ru, an address two other entries in Russia use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.

The broadcaster publishes at radiozvezda.ru, on Russia's own country domain. A national domain is a small piece of evidence that the station is what the directory says it is, since these are the harder ones to register from somewhere else.