Oldies Vibes

Oldies Vibes sits at 145 of 328 in the United Arab Emirates' listing, in the body of the list rather than at either end. This is where most of a national dial actually lives, and it is the part a country hub's first fifty rows never reach.

Among 328 stations in the United Arab Emirates here, this is the only one that puts oldies first. The oldies rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

At 64 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on the United Arab Emirates' dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

Oldies Vibes streams in AAC while almost all of the United Arab Emirates' 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 straight from oldies.streeemer.com, an address unique to this entry in the United Arab Emirates' 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.