LOUNGE__ by rautemusik ( )

Position 99 of 1,409 in Germany. The ordering is a click count and nothing more, but at this depth it still separates stations meaningfully, which stops being true further down the same list.

The directory counts 22 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.

52 stations in Germany lead with ambient and LOUNGE__ by rautemusik ( ) is one of them, though the tag does not make the country's headline list. Across the whole directory 171 stations use it first, so the rail below runs well past Germany.

Worldwide it ranks 17 among 171 ambient entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

At 192 kbps the stream is on the better side of Germany's dial, where the median is 128 kbps. Not dramatically so, and bitrate is only one of several things that decide whether a stream sounds good, but it is the one the directory records.

The stream is served from lounge-high.rautemusik.fm, 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.

Their address is rm.fm. A .fm address says the broadcaster wanted a radio sounding domain, not that the station is in Micronesia, which is where that domain actually comes from.