Off The Ball

This is one of the quieter entries in Ireland's listing, at 65 of 75. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

The open count against Off The Ball 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 language field is empty for this entry. It is left empty here too rather than filled from the country, because the shelves on this site are only worth using if what is on them was actually declared.

Ireland is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in Ireland uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

At 64 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on Ireland's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

The stream is served from stream.audioxi.com, an address three other entries in Ireland use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.