kontrafunk

kontrafunk is at position 29 of the 1,409 stations in Germany with pages here, inside the top quarter of the national listing. That is high enough to be reached by browsing rather than by searching, which is how most of these pages are actually found.

The directory counts 55 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.

Information covers 6 of Germany's entries. Tags on this site are always the broadcaster's own first tag and never a second one, because a station tagged five ways would otherwise appear on five shelves and turn each of them into a tag cloud.

On the same tag worldwide it is 4 of 74, which is inside the top quarter of every information station the directory carries.

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.

Its audio comes straight from icecast.multhielemedia.de, an address unique to this entry in Germany's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.

kontrafunk publishes at kontrafunk.radio. A .radio address is not open registration; the registry limits it to broadcasters and related organisations, so it is one of the few domains that says something verifiable about who owns it.