Ice Radio

Position 131 of 302 puts this station in the middle of the Netherlands' directory presence. The middle is worth browsing precisely because the ordering has stopped sorting by fame and has not yet stopped sorting at all.

The open count against Ice Radio is four, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

No language is recorded against this station. The field is optional in the public directory and a great many entries skip it, so an empty language says nothing about what you will hear when you press play. It does keep the station off the language shelves, since a shelf built on guesses would be worse than a shelf with holes.

Three stations in the Netherlands lead with the tag rock, and Ice Radio is one of them. That is a small enough group to hear end to end, and the tags are the broadcasters' own words rather than a classification imposed here.

320 kbps, which puts Ice Radio above the 192 kbps that a typical entry in the Netherlands runs at.

The stream is served from stream.iceradio.nl, an address two other entries in the Netherlands use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.