Dancevibes Radio

In the Netherlands' ordering this is number 150 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.

Broadcasting in English from the Netherlands, alongside 88 other stations there doing the same. Dutch is the country's commonest broadcast language in this directory, so this is the second shelf of a bilingual listing.

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.

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.

The station's site is at dancevibesradio.eu, which sits under the .eu country domain rather than the Netherlands'. That mismatch is usually mundane, a host or a parent organisation registered elsewhere, and it is the kind of small inconsistency worth seeing rather than smoothing over.