MaXXima

In Switzerland's ordering this is number 71 of 126, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

Broadcasting in English from Switzerland, alongside 39 other stations there doing the same. German is the country's commonest broadcast language in this directory, so this is the second shelf of a bilingual listing.

The shelf for the language holds 5,984 stations, led by United States. A station like this one broadcasting from Switzerland is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

MaXXima shares its leading tag, club, with one other Switzerland entry. Across every country the directory has 25 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

MaXXima streams at 80 kbps, under Switzerland's median of 128 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.

Its audio comes from maxxima.mine.nu. One other station in Switzerland streams from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.