WMPB HD2 - MPB Music Radio

Rank 1448 of 1,481 in the United States. What that mostly measures is how many people have already found the station through this directory, which is a poor proxy for anything else and an honest one to publish.

The directory records no opens at all for WMPB HD2 - MPB Music Radio. That is a fact about the directory rather than about the station: a stream nobody has opened through radio-browser can be perfectly healthy and well listened to on its own site or on a radio. It does mean this page is where the station's directory history starts.

The gap here is large: 24 kbps where the United States' stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

The audio comes from playerservices.streamtheworld.com, and 53 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.

Of everything the directory lists in United States, the entry this page reads closest to is Ke Buena 97.5 FM, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. The number each one is named for is the difference between them: two here and ninety-seven point five there. They are filed in different parts of the country: this one under Mississippi, that one under El Paso TX. The directory puts this stream at twenty-four kilobits and the other at sixty-four. The broadcaster tagged this entry classical, jackson, music and npr, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the regional mexican tag and this one does not.