Venlo Vintage

Venlo Vintage is deep in the Netherlands' listing, at 212 of 302. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

50s is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in the Netherlands uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

At 128 kbps, this sits below most of the Netherlands' listing, whose median is 192 kbps. 77% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

Venlo Vintage streams in AAC while most of the Netherlands' dial is MP3. Codec choice is mostly invisible to a listener, and it is one of the clearest fingerprints of which hosting provider a station uses, since providers default their customers into a format and few customers ever change it.

Its audio comes straight from stream-10.pmteurope.com:8040, an address unique to this entry in the Netherlands' listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.