COOLFM Bside/Alternative

Among the 118 stations in Hungary with pages, COOLFM Bside/Alternative is around the halfway mark. Anything in this stretch is reachable from the country's numbered pages rather than from its front table, which is why those pages exist.

The open count against COOLFM Bside/Alternative is three, 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.

Only three entries in Hungary put alternative first. The tag is self-declared and inconsistent between countries, which is why the rail below is worth more as a way of wandering than as a filter.

COOLFM Bside/Alternative streams at 128 kbps, under Hungary's median of 160 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

The stream address on this entry points at mediagw.e-tiger.net, which is where 20 other stations in Hungary 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.