Mettaswara TOP 40

Mettaswara TOP 40 sits in the tail of Indonesia's 212 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 Mettaswara TOP 40 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.

The country page counts hits among its commonest tags, and this station is one of the 12 entries in Indonesia behind that count. Worldwide the tag leads 114 stations, which makes the rail below a very wide shelf.

At 64 kbps, this sits below most of Indonesia's listing, whose median is 96 kbps. 43% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

The stream address on this entry points at mettaswara.com:8700, which is where 14 other stations in Indonesia 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.