Bandit Ballads

Bandit Ballads is at position 14 of the 94 stations in Sweden with pages here, inside the top quarter of the national listing. That is high enough to be reached by browsing rather than by searching, which is how most of these pages are actually found.

Ballads is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in Sweden uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

Bandit Ballads streams at 96 kbps, under Sweden's median of 128 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.

Where Sweden's stations mostly use MP3, this one uses AAC+. Worth a line only because it is a difference, and because the country page's format breakdown is one of the quicker ways to see which providers a national dial runs on.

The stream is served from wr21-ice.stream.khz.se, which no other entry in Sweden uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.