Flux - 80s Channel (320)

Flux - 80s Channel (320) is one of two entries in Germany whose names are the same but for a number, and this one's number is three hundred and twenty. A broadcaster numbering its streams like that is separating feeds, not stations, so read the number as the part that matters.

In Germany's ordering this is number 800 of 1,409, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

The directory carries no bitrate for Flux - 80s Channel (320). 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.

The stream address on this entry points at streams.fluxfm.de, which is where 8 other stations in Germany are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.

Flux - 80s Channel (320) and RPR1. Ludwigshafen are described by the directory in very nearly the same fields, which makes the differences between them worth stating rather than leaving to be inferred. The number each one is named for is the difference between them: three hundred and twenty here and one there. They are filed in different parts of the country: this one under Berlin, that one under Rheinland-Pfalz. The two streams are served from different addresses, streams.fluxfm.de for this one and stream.rpr1.de for the other. The other entry carries the 80er, 90er, news, pop, top40, traffic and weather tags and this one does not. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, fluxfm.de and rpr1.de.