Amsterdam Funk Channel

Among the 302 stations in the Netherlands with pages, Amsterdam Funk Channel is around the halfway mark. Anything in this stretch is reachable from the country's numbered pages rather than from its front table, which is why those pages exist.

The 80s corner of the Netherlands' dial is two stations deep in this snapshot. Small clusters like that are usually the most rewarding thing on a country page, because they are what the national broadcasters at the top of the list are not.

At 320 kbps the stream is on the better side of the Netherlands' dial, where the median is 192 kbps. Not dramatically so, and bitrate is only one of several things that decide whether a stream sounds good, but it is the one the directory records.

Where the Netherlands' stations mostly use MP3, this one uses AAC+. Worth a line only because it is a difference, and because the country page's format breakdown is one of the quicker ways to see which providers a national dial runs on.

Their address is afc.fm. A .fm address says the broadcaster wanted a radio sounding domain, not that the station is in Micronesia, which is where that domain actually comes from.

Of everything the directory lists in Netherlands, the entry this page reads closest to is 4ever49radio, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. This entry records Noord-Holland as the region it transmits from, and the other records no region at all. The two streams are served from different addresses, live.afc.fm for this one and playerservices.streamtheworld.com for the other. This one is encoded as AAC+ and that one as MP3, which is a difference a browser can hear about before you can. The broadcaster tagged this entry 80s, funk, r&b, soul and urban, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the 70s and 80's tags and this one does not.