Technolovers HARDCORE

Out of 1,409 entries in Germany, this one ranks 340. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

6 stations in Germany lead with electronic and Technolovers HARDCORE is one of them, though the tag does not make the country's headline list. Across the whole directory 74 stations use it first, so the rail below runs well past Germany.

Across every country, Technolovers HARDCORE is 17 of the 74 stations leading with electronic, by the same open count the country list uses.

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.

The audio comes from stream.technolovers.fm, and 33 other stations in Germany are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of Germany's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.

The station's own site is technolovers.fm. The .fm domain has nothing to do with FM radio or with where a station is: it belongs to the Federated States of Micronesia and has been sold to broadcasters worldwide for years, so read it as branding rather than as a location.