France Maghreb 2

France Maghreb 2 ranks 10 among 52 stations in Algeria. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

The directory counts 21 opens against this stream. That is well above Algeria's median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.

Only two entries in Algeria put international first. The tag is self-declared and inconsistent between countries, which is why the rail below is worth more as a way of wandering than as a filter.

On the same tag worldwide it is 4 of 39, which is inside the top quarter of every international station the directory carries.

France Maghreb 2 streams in MP3 while most of Algeria's dial is AAC. Codec choice is mostly invisible to a listener, and it is one of the clearest fingerprints of which hosting provider a station uses, since providers default their customers into a format and few customers ever change it.

The stream is served from francemaghreb2.ice.infomaniak.ch, which no other entry in Algeria uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.