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Position 188 of 369 puts this station in the middle of Türkiye's directory presence. The middle is worth browsing precisely because the ordering has stopped sorting by fame and has not yet stopped sorting at all.

The stream is 65 kbps where Türkiye's median is 128. Below the country's middle, which usually points at an older encoder or a deliberate choice to stay light, and matters far more for music than for talk.

The stream is served as an HLS playlist, which is the format broadcasters use to switch bitrates on the fly and the one a plain browser audio element will not open. Nothing is wrong with the station; the player on this page simply cannot follow that kind of link without a library. The extension carries one and handles it.

The audio comes from trkvz-radyolar.ercdn.net, and 8 other stations in Türkiye 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 Türkiye's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.

Of everything the directory lists in Türkiye, the entry this page reads closest to is Discoland, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. The two streams are served from different addresses, trkvz-radyolar.ercdn.net for this one and moondigitaledge.radyotvonline.net for the other. This one is encoded as AAC and that one as AAC+, which is a difference a browser can hear about before you can. The directory puts this stream at sixty-five kilobits and the other at one hundred and twenty-eight. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, sabah.com.tr and moondigitaledge.radyotvonline.net.