IndieXL

IndieXL sits at 106 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 Netherlands' directory presence is led by Dutch, with 89 stations broadcasting in English behind it. IndieXL is one of that second group, large enough that the country hub prints it as its own bar rather than folding it into a remainder.

English radio in this directory sits largely in United States, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom, with 5,984 stations on the shelf in total. This page's station is one of the entries that make the shelf wider than any single country.

The gap here is large: 52 kbps where the Netherlands' stations typically run 192. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

IndieXL streams in AAC+ while most of the Netherlands' dial is MP3. Codec choice is mostly invisible to a listener, and it is one of the clearest fingerprints of which hosting provider a station uses, since providers default their customers into a format and few customers ever change it.