Радио Монте Карло - Wonderful Blues

In Russia's ordering this is number 149 of 471, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

Радио Монте Карло - Wonderful Blues shares its leading tag, blues, with one other Russia entry. Across every country the directory has 78 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

Радио Монте Карло - Wonderful Blues 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.

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 mc-blues.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 montecarlo.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.