La Otra - FM 104.5

This is one of the quieter entries in Uruguay's listing, at 28 of 43. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

La Otra - FM 104.5 is the only station in Uruguay whose first tag is cultura, out of 43 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Uruguay does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only cultura station.

At 48 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on Uruguay's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

The format here is AAC+, against a listing for Uruguay 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.

Its audio comes straight from cento02.mipanelradio.com, an address unique to this entry in Uruguay's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.