SWR4 Freiburg

The directory lists two streams in Germany under this name, told apart by a number alone. This page is number four. Nothing here is taken from the other one.

In Germany's ordering this is number 695 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 open count against SWR4 Freiburg is four, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

Oldies is one of Germany's headline genres in this directory, and SWR4 Freiburg is one of 16 stations there leading with it. The country hub prints the same tag near the top of its own list, so this station sits inside the country's main sound rather than off to one side.

The stream address on this entry points at liveradio.swr.de, which is where 35 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.