Classic FM HD

Position 37 of 466 in the United Kingdom. The ordering is a click count and nothing more, but at this depth it still separates stations meaningfully, which stops being true further down the same list.

At 20 recorded opens, Classic FM HD 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.

Tagged classical, along with 8 other stations in the country and 242 across the directory.

Across every country, Classic FM HD is 19 of the 242 stations leading with classical, by the same open count the country list uses.

192 kbps, which puts Classic FM HD above the 128 kbps that a typical entry in the United Kingdom runs at.

The format here is AAC, against a listing for the United Kingdom 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.

Classic FM HD streams from ice-sov.musicradio.com. No other station in the United Kingdom is served from that address, and across the whole directory it appears one time in total.