Q-Music Limburg

Position 140 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 Q-Music Limburg 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.

The gap here is large: 96 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.

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.

The stream is served from mp3streams.nl, an address three 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.

Of everything the directory lists in Netherlands, the entry this page reads closest to is 100% NL Liefde, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, qmusiclimburg.nl and mp3streams.nl.