How we checked Vanilla
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 1 thing about this entry. We also found 4 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
| What we say | Read from | When |
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Description
A chillout music channel carried on the Bulgarian radioplay portal, running continuous downtempo, chillout and deep house with no speech. The channel's own stream identifies itself as "Vanilla" and declares its genre as "Chill Out", and points its icy-url at radioplay.bg, which is the operator's own player portal. It is offered in two qualities, 56 kbps and 160 kbps AAC.
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RADIOPLAY BG | 2026 |
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Artists
From its own now-playing service, in one hour: Thievery Corporation, Paul Oakenfold, Deep Forest, Joe Goddard, Full Intention with Shena, Nookie with Larry Heard, Ghostland with Sinéad O'Connor and Natacha Atlas, Amber, Sarah Vaughan in a Gotan Project remix, Somelee, Zeb Samuels and Thysma.
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RADIOPLAY BG | 2026 |
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Contact route
none found. The portal publishes only terms of use and mobile app links for this channel, with no contact page, form, email, studio phone, WhatsApp, request line or social account attached to Vanilla. The operator's separate corporate site publishes advertising sales contacts, but its portfolio page lists nine stations and Vanilla is not among them, so none of those contacts is presented as Vanilla's.
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RADIOPLAY BG | 2026 |
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Era
Broad. The rotation I observed ran from a 1955 Sarah Vaughan vocal in a modern remix through 1990s and 2000s downtempo and trance to recent releases.
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RADIOPLAY BG | 2026 |
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Music
Chillout, downtempo and deep house, as its own stream declares.
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RADIOPLAY BG | 2026 |
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Language
No spoken content was present at any point I sampled the channel. The portal and the channel branding are Bulgarian; the songs carried are in English or instrumental.
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RADIOPLAY BG | 2026 |
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Kind
Automated playout. Continuous music with per-track metadata, no presenter links and no breaks of any kind across the run of tracks I observed.
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RADIOPLAY BG | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
The suspicion that the bare one-word title is incomplete does not hold. The operator's own stream names the channel exactly "Vanilla", with nothing appended, and declares radioplay.bg as its home, so the stored title is right as it stands.
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RADIOPLAY BG | 2026 |
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Where
Bulgaria. An online-only channel; no FM frequency is stated for it anywhere on the operator's portal.
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RADIOPLAY BG | 2026 |
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On air
none. No presenter is named on the portal, in the channel's stream metadata or in its now-playing data.
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RADIOPLAY BG | 2026 |
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Programmes
none. The operator publishes no schedule for this channel, and the portal offers only a player.
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RADIOPLAY BG | 2026 |
What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
| Field | Change | Why |
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| homepage url | https://radioplay.bg/ → https://www.radioplay.bg/?radio=vanilla | The stored value, the bare portal root, is shared by eighteen different channels and does not identify this one. This address is the channel's own address on the operator's own portal and selects Vanilla specifically. That radioplay.bg is the operator's own home for this channel, and not a directory entry, is settled by the channel's own stream: https://play.global.audio/vanilla.aac returns icy-name 'Vanilla', icy-genre 'Chill Out' and icy-url 'https://radioplay.bg', so the stream operator itself declares that domain as its site. The address returns HTTP 200 on the same registrable domain as the stored value, so no off-domain redirect guard applies. Noted for the record: I tested the separate suspicion that the one-word title is incomplete and it is not, because the operator's own stream names the channel exactly 'Vanilla' with nothing appended, so I propose no title change. |
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| Descriptions of Vanilla as an internet radio of chillout, soul and deep house circulating on Bulgarian listing sites | they are not the operator's words on the operator's own pages, and directories are not accepted as sources here.
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| Material from the seventeen sister channels on the same portal, among them Radio 1, Radio 1 Rock, Radio Energy, Energy 90s, Energy 00s, Avto Radio, Radio City, City Latin, City Rab, Radio Nova, Nova News, Radio Veronika, 6 Bez 10, BG Estrada, BG Radio, Cafe and BNR | they are separate services and none of their material belongs to this row.
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| A format and audience for Vanilla drawn from Radioplay Media's corporate portfolio page | that page describes nine stations and does not list Vanilla, so nothing on it describes this channel.
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| The Greek service at vanillaradio.com and its Deep, Fresh and Smooth Flavors channels | an unrelated operator that shares the word Vanilla, and a live confusion risk given both appear in this same batch.
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If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: Vanilla — listed via Radio Browser · https://radioplay.bg/