Radio SRF 2 Kultur (AAC 192)

In Switzerland's ordering this is number 63 of 126, 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.

Classical is one of Switzerland's headline genres in this directory, and Radio SRF 2 Kultur (AAC 192) is one of 6 stations there leading with it. The country hub prints the same tag near the top of its own list, so this station sits inside the country's main sound rather than off to one side.

200 kbps, which puts Radio SRF 2 Kultur (AAC 192) above the 128 kbps that a typical entry in Switzerland runs at.

The format here is AAC, against a listing for Switzerland 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.

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.