Vinylestimes

At position 708 of 710, this is one of the stations in France that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.

Vinylestimes has a zero in the directory's open count. It is the least interesting number on this page and the one most likely to be misread, so it is worth being plain: it measures traffic through radio-browser, not audience.

The language field is empty for this entry. It is left empty here too rather than filled from the country, because the shelves on this site are only worth using if what is on them was actually declared.

At 192 kbps the stream is on the better side of France's dial, where the median is 128 kbps. Not dramatically so, and bitrate is only one of several things that decide whether a stream sounds good, but it is the one the directory records.

The audio comes from listen.radioking.com, and 33 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.

The nearest thing to this entry in France is FunVibe. They are not the same station, and these are the facts the catalogue holds that tell them apart. The two streams are served from different addresses, listen.radioking.com for this one and radio.funvibe.fr for the other. The broadcaster tagged this entry classic rock, hard rock and metal, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the french, hits, pop and top hits tags and this one does not. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, vinylestimes.fr and funvibe.fr.