Radio X FLAC

In Switzerland's ordering this is number 49 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.

The directory records no language for Radio X FLAC. That gap is common and it is upstream of this site: broadcasters fill the field or they do not, and roughly a third of the stations with pages here have left it empty. It means the station appears on its country hub and not on any language shelf, which is the one place the omission costs it.

Twice the local median and then some: 2000 kbps where Switzerland's stations typically manage 128. Whether you can hear the difference depends entirely on what you are listening on, but the headroom is there.

An OGG stream on a MP3 dial. The public directory records the format as the server reports it, and formats this far off the beaten track usually indicate somebody running their own encoder rather than a hosted service.

Its audio comes straight from mp3.radiox.ch, an address unique to this entry in Switzerland's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.