Q-Music

In the Netherlands' listing Q-Music lands at 15 of 302, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

At 28 recorded opens, Q-Music is one of the streams that people actually reach through the public directory rather than through a station's own app. The count is the whole basis of the ranking on this site, and it is worth knowing that it measures directory traffic specifically.

Q-Music streams at 96 kbps against the Netherlands' median of 192, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 77% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

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.