Qmusic

Qmusic sits third among the 302 stations in the Netherlands with pages here, close enough to the head of the list that most people browsing the country reach it early.

The directory counts 74 opens against this stream. That is well above the Netherlands' median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.

The language field is empty for this entry. It is left empty here too rather than filled from the country, because the shelves on this site are only worth using if what is on them was actually declared.

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.