Classic Radio

Classic Radio is at 13 in a listing of 39. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

With four recorded opens, Classic Radio sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Sri Lanka's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

Classic Radio streams at 64 kbps against Sri Lanka's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 64% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

The format here is AAC, against a listing for Sri Lanka 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.

Its audio comes from cp11.serverse.com. One other station in Sri Lanka streams from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.