Radio538

Radio538 is one of five entries in the Netherlands whose names are the same but for a number, and this one's number is five hundred and thirty-eight. A broadcaster numbering its streams like that is separating feeds, not stations, so read the number as the part that matters.

Position 91 of 302 puts this station in the middle of the Netherlands' directory presence. The middle is worth browsing precisely because the ordering has stopped sorting by fame and has not yet stopped sorting at all.

Radio538 is the only station in the Netherlands whose first tag is eurodance, out of 302 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in the Netherlands does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only eurodance station.

Radio538 streams at 128 kbps, under the Netherlands' median of 192 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

The stream is served from 22663.live.streamtheworld.com, an address two other entries in the Netherlands use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.