DFM - Insomnia

Out of 471 entries in Russia, this one ranks 77. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

The country page counts dance among its commonest tags, and this station is one of the 11 entries in Russia behind that count. Worldwide the tag leads 270 stations, which makes the rail below a very wide shelf.

Across every country, DFM - Insomnia is 52 of the 270 stations leading with dance, by the same open count the country list uses.

The stream is 96 kbps where Russia's median is 128. Below the country's middle, which usually points at an older encoder or a deliberate choice to stay light, and matters far more for music than for talk.

AAC+ here, on a dial that carries three different formats. A mixed codec listing usually means a country whose stations are hosted in several different places rather than through one dominant provider.

Its audio comes straight from dfm-insomnia.hostingradio.ru, an address unique to this entry in Russia's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.