ROCK RADIO Hard & Heavy

ROCK RADIO Hard & Heavy sits in the tail of Slovenia's 27 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

With one recorded open, ROCK RADIO Hard & Heavy sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Slovenia's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

No language is recorded against this station. The field is optional in the public directory and a great many entries skip it, so an empty language says nothing about what you will hear when you press play. It does keep the station off the language shelves, since a shelf built on guesses would be worse than a shelf with holes.

ROCK RADIO Hard & Heavy streams at 128 kbps, under Slovenia's median of 160 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.

8 of Slovenia's entries are served from stream.nextmedia.si, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.