Nostalgie Funk

In France's listing Nostalgie Funk lands at 65 of 710, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

Tagged funk, along with 6 other stations in the country and 24 across the directory.

At 320 kbps, Nostalgie Funk streams at more than double France's median of 128 kbps. That is a deliberate choice by whoever runs it: bandwidth is the recurring cost of an internet station, and a rate this far above the local norm is money spent on sounding better than the dial around it.

Where France's stations mostly use MP3, this one uses AAC. Worth a line only because it is a difference, and because the country page's format breakdown is one of the quicker ways to see which providers a national dial runs on.

The stream address on this entry points at streaming.nrjaudio.fm, which is where 63 other stations in France are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.

Nostalgie Funk keeps its own site at nostalgie.fr. The address sits under France's country code, which lines up with where the directory says the station broadcasts from.