SmoothFM Soul

SmoothFM Soul is deep in Portugal's listing, at 105 of 105. 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.

SmoothFM Soul has a zero in the directory's open count. It is the least interesting number on this page and the one most likely to be misread, so it is worth being plain: it measures traffic through radio-browser, not audience.

No language is recorded against this station. The field is optional in the public directory and a great many entries skip it, so an empty language says nothing about what you will hear when you press play. It does keep the station off the language shelves, since a shelf built on guesses would be worse than a shelf with holes.

SmoothFM Soul is the only station in Portugal whose first tag is smooth soul, out of 105 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Portugal does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only smooth soul station.

The stream address on this entry points at stream-icy.bauermedia.pt, which is where 19 other stations in Portugal are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.