Высоцкий

In Russia's listing Высоцкий lands at 81 of 471, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

4 stations in Russia lead with шансон and Высоцкий is one of them, though the tag does not make the country's headline list. Across the whole directory 4 stations use it first, so the rail below runs well past Russia.

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 rr-vysockij.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.

Their site is rusradio.ru, a domain registered in Russia. Where a station's own address and its listed country agree, the entry is a little more trustworthy than one where they do not.