100.5 The Fox

In the United States' ordering this is number 834 of 1,481, 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.

At 24 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on the United States' dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

The stream is served as an HLS playlist, which is the format broadcasters use to switch bitrates on the fly and the one a plain browser audio element will not open. Nothing is wrong with the station; the player on this page simply cannot follow that kind of link without a library. The extension carries one and handles it.

The stream address on this entry points at stream.revma.ihrhls.com, which is where 176 other stations in the United States 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.

100.5 The Fox and GotRadio - Soft Rock Café are described by the directory in very nearly the same fields, which makes the differences between them worth stating rather than leaving to be inferred. This entry is named for a number, one hundred point five, and the other is not. The two streams are served from different addresses, stream.revma.ihrhls.com for this one and pureplay.cdnstream1.com for the other. This one is encoded as AAC and that one as AAC+, which is a difference a browser can hear about before you can. The directory puts this stream at twenty-four kilobits and the other at sixty-three. The other entry carries the soft rock tag and this one does not. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, 1005thefox.iheart.com and gotradio.com.