Sound UP Station NFRS

Sound UP Station NFRS ranks 5 among 88 stations in Japan. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

Sound UP Station NFRS has 54 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.

Nothing else in Japan's listing leads with indie. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

At 96 kbps, this sits below most of Japan's listing, whose median is 128 kbps. 65% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

Its audio comes straight from stream2.rcast.net, an address unique to this entry in Japan's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.