BlackBox FR

In France's ordering this is number 317 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.

With two recorded opens, BlackBox FR sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in France's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

Broadcasting in French, alongside most of France's other entries. The country page breaks the remaining five languages out with counts, which is usually a quicker read of who lives somewhere than any summary.

128 kbps matches France's median almost exactly. Most stations cluster here because most of them are using the same handful of hosting providers with the same default settings.

BlackBox FR streams from blackbox-fr.ice.infomaniak.ch. No other station in France is served from that address, and across the whole directory it appears one time in total.

The broadcaster publishes at blackboxfm.fr, on France's own country domain. A national domain is a small piece of evidence that the station is what the directory says it is, since these are the harder ones to register from somewhere else.