DKFM Edge

In Canada's ordering this is number 75 of 259, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

The open count against DKFM Edge is four, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

DKFM Edge is the only station in Canada whose first tag is shoegaze, out of 259 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Canada does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only shoegaze station.

At 64 kbps, this sits below most of Canada's listing, whose median is 96 kbps. 46% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

The stream is served from radio.streemlion.com:4405, which no other entry in Canada 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.