Radio Gong 106.9

Radio Gong 106.9 is one of two entries in Germany sharing a name and differing by a number, and this one carries one hundred and six point nine. That number is the only thing in the name that separates it from the rest of the set.

Radio Gong 106.9 is at 669 in a listing of 1,409. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

The directory carries no bitrate for Radio Gong 106.9. 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 format here is AAC, against a listing for Germany overwhelmingly made of MP3. Both play in a browser; the difference shows up in how much quality survives at a given bitrate, where AAC has the advantage at lower rates.

Its audio comes from gong.info. 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.