VibeFM

This is one of the quieter entries in Poland's listing, at 228 of 228. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

No opens have been recorded against VibeFM in the public directory. Plenty of working stations sit at zero, because the count only rises when somebody plays the stream from a client that reports back, and most listening never touches the directory at all.

Nothing else in Poland's listing leads with hip-hop. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

At 64 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on Poland's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

VibeFM streams in AAC+ while most of Poland's 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 ic2.smcdn.pl, an address six other entries in Poland use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.