classic rock

This is one of the quieter entries in Switzerland's listing, at 93 of 126. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

The classic rock corner of Switzerland's dial is two stations deep in this snapshot. Small clusters like that are usually the most rewarding thing on a country page, because they are what the national broadcasters at the top of the list are not.

The stream is encoded at 256 kbps, more than twice the 128 kbps median for Switzerland. Bitrate is the one quality figure the public directory carries, and on this entry it is unambiguous.

The audio comes from strm112.1.fm, and 10 other stations in Switzerland are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of Switzerland's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.

classic rock publishes at 1.fm. Worth a note because .fm is a country domain that stopped meaning its country a long time ago: it is Micronesia's, and it is used by radio stations everywhere for the obvious reason.