Amor FM

In Spain's ordering this is number 229 of 487, 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.

Amor FM is the only station in Spain whose first tag is balada en español, out of 487 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Spain does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only balada en español station.

The stream is encoded at 320 kbps, more than twice the 128 kbps median for Spain. Bitrate is the one quality figure the public directory carries, and on this entry it is unambiguous.

The format here is AAC, against a listing for Spain overwhelmingly made of MP3. Both play in a browser; the difference shows up in how much quality survives at a given bitrate, where AAC has the advantage at lower rates.

18 of Spain's entries are served from stream.zeno.fm, 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.