Select Radio

Out of 466 entries in the United Kingdom, this one ranks 91. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

Select Radio has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in the United Kingdom on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

128 kbps matches the United Kingdom's median almost exactly. Most stations cluster here because most of them are using the same handful of hosting providers with the same default settings.

Select Radio streams in AAC+ while most of the United Kingdom'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.

The stream is served from streaming05.liveboxstream.uk, an address four other entries in the United Kingdom use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.