Qmusic Non-Stop

Position 29 of 302 in the Netherlands. The ordering is a click count and nothing more, but at this depth it still separates stations meaningfully, which stops being true further down the same list.

Qmusic Non-Stop broadcasts in Dutch, which is the language most of the Netherlands' stations in the directory use. The country's listing records six languages in total, so the Dutch stations are the body of the dial rather than the whole of it.

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.

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.

Qmusic Non-Stop keeps its own site at qmusic.nl. The address sits under the Netherlands' country code, which lines up with where the directory says the station broadcasts from.