Rinse UK

Out of 466 entries in the United Kingdom, this one ranks 33. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

At 23 recorded opens, Rinse UK is one of the streams that people actually reach through the public directory rather than through a station's own app. The count is the whole basis of the ranking on this site, and it is worth knowing that it measures directory traffic specifically.

Nothing else in the United Kingdom's listing leads with dance music. 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.

Where the United Kingdom's stations mostly use MP3, this one uses AAC+. Worth a line only because it is a difference, and because the country page's format breakdown is one of the quicker ways to see which providers a national dial runs on.

Its audio comes from admin.stream.rinse.fm. Two other stations in the United Kingdom stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.

Their address is rinse.fm. A .fm address says the broadcaster wanted a radio sounding domain, not that the station is in Micronesia, which is where that domain actually comes from.