LA 2

At position 340 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.

Twice the local median and then some: 3012 kbps where Spain's stations typically manage 128. Whether you can hear the difference depends entirely on what you are listening on, but the headroom is there.

LA 2 streams in AACH264 rather than the MP3 that most of Spain's dial uses. Uncommon codecs are worth noticing for a practical reason as well as a nerdy one: browser support for them is thinner than for MP3 and AAC.

The stream is served as an HLS playlist, which is the format broadcasters use to switch bitrates on the fly and the one a plain browser audio element will not open. Nothing is wrong with the station; the player on this page simply cannot follow that kind of link without a library. The extension carries one and handles it.

The stream is served from rtvelivestream.rtve.es, an address five other entries in Spain use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.