Лёгкое радио

This is one of the quieter entries in Russia's listing, at 448 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.

No opens have been recorded against Лёгкое радио in the public directory. Plenty of working stations sit at zero, because the count only rises when somebody plays the stream from a client that reports back, and most listening never touches the directory at all.

The directory records no language for Лёгкое радио. That gap is common and it is upstream of this site: broadcasters fill the field or they do not, and roughly a third of the stations with pages here have left it empty. It means the station appears on its country hub and not on any language shelf, which is the one place the omission costs it.

Лёгкое радио streams at 96 kbps, under Russia's median of 128 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

Its audio comes straight from stream.audiodiz.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.

Of everything the directory lists in Russia, the entry this page reads closest to is ГУСЬ.Драм, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. The two streams are served from different addresses, stream.audiodiz.ru for this one and stream3.radiogoose.ru for the other. This one is encoded as AAC and that one as MP3, which is a difference a browser can hear about before you can. The directory puts this stream at ninety-six kilobits and the other at one hundred and ninety-two. The other entry carries the dnb and drum and bass tags and this one does not. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, radiopotok.ru and radiogoose.ru.