Hotmix Hard Rock

In France's ordering this is number 191 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.

Hotmix Hard Rock has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in France on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

Classic hard rock 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.

The stream runs at 128 kbps, level with France's median. Bitrate stops being interesting once a station is at the local norm, and the useful question moves on to whether the stream stays up, which no snapshot can answer.

51 of France's entries are served from streaming.hotmixradio.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.