Rumba iHeart

Broadcasting in Spanish from the United States, alongside 86 other stations there doing the same. English is the country's commonest broadcast language in this directory, so this is the second shelf of a bilingual listing.

The Spanish shelf on this site collects every station in the language regardless of where it transmits from, and the directory's Spanish entries are concentrated in Mexico, Argentina and Spain. Reading the shelf next to this page is the quickest way to see how far the language's dial actually reaches.

Rumba iHeart streams at 24 kbps against the United States' median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 49% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

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.

Rumba iHeart and Etoile TV 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 estrellanews-roku.amagi.tv for the other. This one is encoded as AAC and that one as AACH264, which is a difference a browser can hear about before you can. The broadcaster tagged this entry iheart radio, latin and latin pop, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the news and noticias tags and this one does not.