Fréquence 3 Urban FLAC

Fréquence 3 Urban FLAC sits at 186 of 710 in France's listing, in the body of the list rather than at either end. This is where most of a national dial actually lives, and it is the part a country hub's first fifty rows never reach.

Tagged hip-hop, along with 3 other stations in the country and 25 across the directory.

Across every country, Fréquence 3 Urban FLAC is 4 of the 25 stations leading with hip-hop, by the same open count the country list uses.

1536 kbps against France's median of 128. Streams at this rate are the ones worth finding a good pair of headphones for, and they are uncommon: 74% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps at all.

An OGG stream on a MP3 dial. The public directory records the format as the server reports it, and formats this far off the beaten track usually indicate somebody running their own encoder rather than a hosted service.

The audio comes from frequence3.net-radio.fr, and 7 other stations in France 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 France's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.