Qmusic Belgium

Belgium's dial as this directory has it starts with Qmusic Belgium. Nothing about that ranking is editorial: it is the count of how often the stream has been opened, held against the 121 other stations in Belgium with pages on this site.

Qmusic Belgium has 65 recorded opens in the public directory, which is a real number by the standards of this data set. Most entries never reach double figures, so a count at this level means the stream has been found and played repeatedly by people using directory clients rather than the broadcaster's own site.

Qmusic Belgium streams at 95 kbps, under Belgium's median of 128 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

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

8 of Belgium's entries are served from icecast-qmusicbe-cdp.triple-it.nl, 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.