Soft Radio

Soft Radio is at 302 in a listing of 710. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

Broadcasting in English from France, alongside 87 other stations there doing the same. French is the country's commonest broadcast language in this directory, so this is the second shelf of a bilingual listing.

Where else English is on air, according to the same snapshot: mostly United States, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom. The shelf lists all 5,984 of them together, which is the view a country hub cannot give.

Soft Radio shares its leading tag, calm, with one other France entry. Across every country the directory has 5 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

192 kbps, which puts Soft Radio above the 128 kbps that a typical entry in France runs at.

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.

Its audio comes from stream10.xdevel.com. Five other stations in France stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.