bigFM 2010er

bigFM 2010er is at 769 in a listing of 1,409. 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.

2010s is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in Germany uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

The directory carries no bitrate for bigFM 2010er. The field is filled from what the stream's own server reports when it is scanned, so an empty one usually means a server that answers without announcing itself rather than a bad stream. Germany's stations that do report come in at a median of 128 kbps, for whatever that is worth as a guess.

bigFM 2010er streams in AAC while most of Germany'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.

25 of Germany's entries are served from stream.bigfm.de, 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.