ByteFM (192k)

In Germany's listing ByteFM (192k) lands at 61 of 1,409, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

The directory counts 32 opens against this stream. That is well above Germany's median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.

The indie corner of Germany'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.

192 kbps, which puts ByteFM (192k) above the 128 kbps that a typical entry in Germany runs at.

The stream is served from bytefm.cast.addradio.de, which no other entry in Germany uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.

ByteFM (192k) publishes at byte.fm. Worth a note because .fm is a country domain that stopped meaning its country a long time ago: it is Micronesia's, and it is used by radio stations everywhere for the obvious reason.