Pop | Radio Swiss

Out of 126 entries in Switzerland, this one ranks 6. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

German is the station's language and the country's commonest, one of six Switzerland's listing records.

Among 126 stations in Switzerland here, this is the only one that puts mp3 first. The mp3 rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

The stream runs at 128 kbps, level with Switzerland's median. Bitrate stops being interesting once a station is at the local norm, and the useful question moves on to whether the stream stays up, which no snapshot can answer.

The audio comes from stream.srg-ssr.ch, and 19 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.

Their site is radioswisspop.ch, a domain registered in Switzerland. Where a station's own address and its listed country agree, the entry is a little more trustworthy than one where they do not.