Radio Broussaille (Lo-Fi AAC 128)

Radio Broussaille (Lo-Fi AAC 128) sits in the tail of France's 710 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

No opens have been recorded against Radio Broussaille (Lo-Fi AAC 128) in the public directory. Plenty of working stations sit at zero, because the count only rises when somebody plays the stream from a client that reports back, and most listening never touches the directory at all.

The adfree corner of France's dial is two stations deep in this snapshot. Small clusters like that are usually the most rewarding thing on a country page, because they are what the national broadcasters at the top of the list are not.

Radio Broussaille (Lo-Fi AAC 128) streams in AAC while most of France's dial is MP3. Codec choice is mostly invisible to a listener, and it is one of the clearest fingerprints of which hosting provider a station uses, since providers default their customers into a format and few customers ever change it.

Its audio comes from stream.radiobroussaille.fr:8443. One other station in France streams from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.