The Prog Rock Machine

The Prog Rock Machine ranks 20 among 140 stations in Australia. 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.

No language is recorded against this station. The field is optional in the public directory and a great many entries skip it, so an empty language says nothing about what you will hear when you press play. It does keep the station off the language shelves, since a shelf built on guesses would be worse than a shelf with holes.

Progressive rock is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in Australia uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

At 64 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on Australia's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

The stream is served from theproganrockmachine.out.airtime.pro, which no other entry in Australia 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.