Alternative Radio HD

In France's ordering this is number 210 of 710, 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 Alternative Radio HD 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.

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

Twice the local median and then some: 320 kbps where France's stations typically manage 128. Whether you can hear the difference depends entirely on what you are listening on, but the headroom is there.

11 of France's entries are served from radioking.com, 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.