TIDE.radio

TIDE.radio sits in the tail of Germany's 1,409 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

The open count against TIDE.radio is one, 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.

German is the station's language and the country's commonest, one of six Germany's listing records.

TIDE.radio shares its leading tag, misc, with two other Germany entries. Across every country the directory has 28 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

128 kbps matches Germany's median almost exactly. Most stations cluster here because most of them are using the same handful of hosting providers with the same default settings.

The stream is served from rcstream0001.redcastle.net, 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.