Alswin Ambient Music

Alswin Ambient Music sits at 176 of 302 in the Netherlands' listing, in the body of the list rather than at either end. This is where most of a national dial actually lives, and it is the part a country hub's first fifty rows never reach.

The country's dial has two sizeable languages on it and this station is on the smaller one. 89 entries in the Netherlands broadcast in English, against a listing whose commonest language is Dutch.

The shelf for the language holds 5,984 stations, led by United States. A station like this one broadcasting from the Netherlands is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

Only two entries in the Netherlands put ambient 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.

Alswin Ambient Music streams at 64 kbps against the Netherlands' median of 192, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 77% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

Its audio comes from server7.radio-streams.net. One other station in the Netherlands streams from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.