Costa Del Mar Madrid

At position 420 of 487, this is one of the stations in Spain that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.

No opens have been recorded against Costa Del Mar Madrid 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.

At 96 kbps, this sits below most of Spain's listing, whose median is 128 kbps. 76% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

Costa Del Mar Madrid streams in AAC while most of Spain's dial is MP3. Codec choice is mostly invisible to a listener, and it is one of the clearest fingerprints of which hosting provider a station uses, since providers default their customers into a format and few customers ever change it.

The station's own site is cdmradio.fm. The .fm domain has nothing to do with FM radio or with where a station is: it belongs to the Federated States of Micronesia and has been sold to broadcasters worldwide for years, so read it as branding rather than as a location.