Joe 70s and 80s

Among the 302 stations in the Netherlands with pages, Joe 70s and 80s 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.

Joe 70s and 80s has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in the Netherlands on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

At 96 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on the Netherlands' dial, whose median is 192 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

Joe 70s and 80s 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.

The audio comes from icecast-qmusicnl-cdp.triple-it.nl, and 7 other stations in the Netherlands are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of the Netherlands' listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.