Veronica Non-stop

Among the 302 stations in the Netherlands with pages, Veronica Non-stop is around the halfway mark. Anything in this stretch is reachable from the country's numbered pages rather than from its front table, which is why those pages exist.

The station's leading tag is alternative, shared with 3 other entries in the Netherlands. It is a well populated tag here without being one of the country's defining ones, which is a common and unremarkable place for a station to sit.

On the same tag worldwide it is 14 of 124, which is inside the top quarter of every alternative station the directory carries.

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.

Veronica Non-stop 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.

The stream is served from 21633.live.streamtheworld.com, an address one other entry in the Netherlands uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.