sunshine-live Schranz

Position 465 of 1,409 puts this station in the middle of Germany's directory presence. The middle is worth browsing precisely because the ordering has stopped sorting by fame and has not yet stopped sorting at all.

sunshine-live Schranz has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in Germany on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

No bitrate is recorded against this stream. It is a common gap: the value is scraped from the stream's headers and plenty of servers do not send them. Press play and your browser will tell you more in two seconds than the field would have.

8 of Germany's entries are served from sunsl.streamabc.net, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.

Their site is sunshine-live.de, a domain registered in Germany. Where a station's own address and its listed country agree, the entry is a little more trustworthy than one where they do not.

Of everything the directory lists in Germany, the entry this page reads closest to is Absolut Top, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. The other entry records Berlin as its region, and the directory holds no region for this one. The two streams are served from different addresses, sunsl.streamabc.net for this one and frontend.streamonkey.net for the other. This one is encoded as MP3 and that one as AAC, which is a difference a browser can hear about before you can. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, sunshine-live.de and absolutradio.de.