Qmusic Q-Allstars

Qmusic Q-Allstars sits in the tail of Belgium's 122 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

Nothing else in Belgium's listing leads with 00's. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

At 95 kbps, this sits below most of Belgium's listing, whose median is 128 kbps. 61% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

Where Belgium's stations mostly use MP3, this one uses AAC+. Worth a line only because it is a difference, and because the country page's format breakdown is one of the quicker ways to see which providers a national dial runs on.

The audio comes from icecast-qmusicbe-cdp.triple-it.nl, and 7 other stations in Belgium are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of Belgium's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.