Radio Samui

In Thailand's ordering this is number 29 of 59, 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.

With three recorded opens, Radio Samui sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Thailand's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

Thailand carries six English stations in the directory against a Thai majority. Radio Samui is one of them, and the pairing of language and country is the fact that distinguishes it from the rest of the national list.

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

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

The stream is served from stream.mixadance.fm, which no other entry in Thailand uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.