Music Radio 97.1 FM

Music Radio 97.1 FM is at 11 in a listing of 17. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

The open count against Music Radio 97.1 FM is two, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

The gap here is large: 32 kbps where Trinidad & Tobago's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

Music Radio 97.1 FM streams in AAC+ while most of Trinidad & Tobago's dial is MP3. Codec choice is mostly invisible to a listener, and it is one of the clearest fingerprints of which hosting provider a station uses, since providers default their customers into a format and few customers ever change it.

Its audio comes from ice42.securenetsystems.net. One other station in Trinidad & Tobago streams from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.