Bloodlit Radio

This is one of the quieter entries in the United States' listing, at 900 of 1,481. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

The open count against Bloodlit Radio is one, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

Bloodlit Radio shares its leading tag, darkwave, with one other United States entry. Across every country the directory has 4 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

The stream is encoded at 320 kbps, more than twice the 128 kbps median for the United States. Bitrate is the one quality figure the public directory carries, and on this entry it is unambiguous.

Its audio comes straight from usa5.fastcast4u.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.