Amsterdam Funk Channel (AFC)

In the Netherlands' ordering this is number 99 of 302, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

Amsterdam Funk Channel (AFC) shares its leading tag, dutch, with one other Netherlands entry. Across every country the directory has 2 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

The encode is 320 kbps against a country median of 192. Comfortably above the middle of the Netherlands' listing without being one of its outliers.

The format here is AAC+, against a listing for the Netherlands overwhelmingly made of MP3. Both play in a browser; the difference shows up in how much quality survives at a given bitrate, where AAC has the advantage at lower rates.

The stream is served from stream.afc.fm, an address one other entry in the Netherlands uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.

The station's own site is afc.fm. The .fm domain has nothing to do with FM radio or with where a station is: it belongs to the Federated States of Micronesia and has been sold to broadcasters worldwide for years, so read it as branding rather than as a location.