Emarat fm

Emarat fm is at 88 in a listing of 328. 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.

Two stations in the United Arab Emirates lead with the tag arabic, and Emarat fm is one of them. That is a small enough group to hear end to end, and the tags are the broadcasters' own words rather than a classification imposed here.

At 637 kbps, Emarat fm streams at more than double the United Arab Emirates' median of 128 kbps. That is a deliberate choice by whoever runs it: bandwidth is the recurring cost of an internet station, and a rate this far above the local norm is money spent on sounding better than the dial around it.

Emarat fm publishes an HLS stream. That is a modern and perfectly good way to broadcast, and it is also why the button on this page may not start it: HLS needs a player that can read a playlist and fetch segments, which a browser audio tag does not do on its own.

The stream is served from admn-radio-cdn-lb.starzplayarabia.com, an address one other entry in the United Arab Emirates uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.