Qmusic Het Foute Uur

Out of 302 entries in the Netherlands, this one ranks 24. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

The station's language is Dutch, the commonest of the six the directory records for the Netherlands. Language is one of the two axes this site indexes on, and the Dutch shelf collects these stations across every country that carries them.

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.

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.

Their site is qmusic.nl, a domain registered in the Netherlands. Where a station's own address and its listed country agree, the entry is a little more trustworthy than one where they do not.