Radio baladas y algo mas

In Venezuela's listing Radio baladas y algo mas lands at 12 of 76, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

Tagged amor, along with 4 other stations in the country and 15 across the directory.

Radio baladas y algo mas streams at 64 kbps against Venezuela's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 53% 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.

AAC here, on a dial that carries four different formats. A mixed codec listing usually means a country whose stations are hosted in several different places rather than through one dominant provider.

33 of Venezuela's entries are served from stream.zeno.fm, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.

Their address is zeno.fm. A .fm address says the broadcaster wanted a radio sounding domain, not that the station is in Micronesia, which is where that domain actually comes from.