Guldkanalen (80-tal)

Guldkanalen (80-tal) is one of two entries in Sweden whose names are the same but for a number, and this one's number is eighty. A broadcaster numbering its streams like that is separating feeds, not stations, so read the number as the part that matters.

In Sweden's ordering this is number 35 of 94, 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.

The open count against Guldkanalen (80-tal) is three, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

The format here is AAC+, against a listing for Sweden 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 stream.dbmedia.se. Two other stations in Sweden stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.