EPIC CLASSICAL - Classical Hotel Lounge

This is one of the quieter entries in Germany's listing, at 1007 of 1,409. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

The open count against EPIC CLASSICAL - Classical Hotel Lounge is two, 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.

The station's leading tag is ambient, shared with 51 other entries in Germany. It is a well populated tag here without being one of the country's defining ones, which is a common and unremarkable place for a station to sit.

The encode is 192 kbps against a country median of 128. Comfortably above the middle of Germany's listing without being one of its outliers.

The audio comes from stream.epic-classical.com, and 20 other stations in Germany 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 Germany's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.

The nearest thing to this entry in Germany is EPIC CLASSICAL - Classical Violin. They are not the same station, and these are the facts the catalogue holds that tell them apart. The broadcaster tagged this entry chillout+lounge, clasica, classical music, jazz lounge and lounge music, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the classic, instrumental, klassiek and violin tags and this one does not.