90.7 FM KWMU-1

In the United States' ordering this is number 479 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.

With three recorded opens, 90.7 FM KWMU-1 sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in the United States' list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where the United States' stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

90.7 FM KWMU-1 is registered with a playlist address. Those hold the real stream URL inside them, so the station is almost certainly fine, and the extension resolves the extra step that a browser audio element will not.

Its audio comes straight from kwmu1-ice.streamguys1.com, an address unique to this entry in the United States' listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.