Iheart Kids Hits

Iheart Kids Hits shares its leading tag, iheart radio, with two other United States entries. Across every country the directory has 3 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

At 24 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on the United States' dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

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 stream.revma.ihrhls.com, and 176 other stations in the United States 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 the United States' listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.

Iheart Kids Hits and GotRadio - Soft Rock Café are described by the directory in very nearly the same fields, which makes the differences between them worth stating rather than leaving to be inferred. The two streams are served from different addresses, stream.revma.ihrhls.com for this one and pureplay.cdnstream1.com 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 twenty-four kilobits and the other at sixty-three. The broadcaster tagged this entry iheart radio and kids, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the classic rock and soft rock tags and this one does not. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, iheart.com and gotradio.com.