DefJay

At position 1206 of 1,409, this is one of the stations in Germany 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.

The open count against DefJay is one, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

No language is recorded against this station. The field is optional in the public directory and a great many entries skip it, so an empty language says nothing about what you will hear when you press play. It does keep the station off the language shelves, since a shelf built on guesses would be worse than a shelf with holes.

DefJay streams at 128 kbps, which is exactly where Germany's dial sits: the country's median is 128 kbps. Being unremarkable on this axis is the normal case and it is fine. 62% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better.

Its audio comes from icepool.silvacast.com. One other station in Germany streams from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.