DFM the Prodigy

Out of 471 entries in Russia, this one ranks 112. 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 language field is empty for this entry. It is left empty here too rather than filled from the country, because the shelves on this site are only worth using if what is on them was actually declared.

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.

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

Its audio comes straight from dfm-prodigy.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.

DFM the Prodigy keeps its own site at dfm.ru. The address sits under Russia's country code, which lines up with where the directory says the station broadcasts from.