Irie FM

Of the 32 stations in Jamaica with a page on this site, Irie FM is the one the directory records the most opens for. That makes it the default entry point to the country, and it is where the country hub starts its own list.

Irie FM has 36 recorded opens in the public directory, which is a real number by the standards of this data set. Most entries never reach double figures, so a count at this level means the stream has been found and played repeatedly by people using directory clients rather than the broadcaster's own site.

Only two entries in Jamaica put reggae 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.

At 64 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on Jamaica'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.iriefm.net:8008, which no other entry in Jamaica 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.