Qmusic Foute Uur

Among the 302 stations in the Netherlands with pages, Qmusic Foute Uur 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.

With four recorded opens, Qmusic Foute Uur sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in the Netherlands' list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

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 audio comes from stream.qmusic.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.