Al Karma FM

Among the 20 stations in Syria with pages, Al Karma FM is around the halfway mark. Anything in this stretch is reachable from the country's numbered pages rather than from its front table, which is why those pages exist.

At 26 recorded opens, Al Karma FM is one of the streams that people actually reach through the public directory rather than through a station's own app. The count is the whole basis of the ranking on this site, and it is worth knowing that it measures directory traffic specifically.

The station's language is Arabic, the commonest of the two the directory records for Syria. Language is one of the two axes this site indexes on, and the Arabic shelf collects these stations across every country that carries them.

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

Its audio comes straight from broadcast.shoutstream.co.uk, an address unique to this entry in Syria'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.