rock. :: main-mix

This is one of the quieter entries in Russia's listing, at 295 of 471. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

The country's dial has two sizeable languages on it and this station is on the smaller one. 78 entries in Russia broadcast in English, against a listing whose commonest language is Russian.

Where else English is on air, according to the same snapshot: mostly United States, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom. The shelf lists all 5,984 of them together, which is the view a country hub cannot give.

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

At 35 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on Russia's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

The stream is served as an HLS playlist, which is the format broadcasters use to switch bitrates on the fly and the one a plain browser audio element will not open. Nothing is wrong with the station; the player on this page simply cannot follow that kind of link without a library. The extension carries one and handles it.