Sveriges Radio P4 Dalarna

Position 27 of 94 puts this station in the middle of Sweden's directory presence. The middle is worth browsing precisely because the ordering has stopped sorting by fame and has not yet stopped sorting at all.

Sveriges Radio P4 Dalarna shares its leading tag, local, with one other Sweden entry. Across every country the directory has 27 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

At 312 kbps, Sveriges Radio P4 Dalarna streams at more than double Sweden's median of 128 kbps. That is a deliberate choice by whoever runs it: bandwidth is the recurring cost of an internet station, and a rate this far above the local norm is money spent on sounding better than the dial around it.

Sveriges Radio P4 Dalarna streams in AAC while most of Sweden'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 stream address on this entry points at live1.sr.se, which is where 20 other stations in Sweden are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.