Folk Alley

Position 528 of 1,481 puts this station in the middle of the United States' directory presence. The middle is worth browsing precisely because the ordering has stopped sorting by fame and has not yet stopped sorting at all.

The open count against Folk Alley is three, 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.

Folk Alley has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in the United States on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

128 kbps matches the United States' median almost exactly. Most stations cluster here because most of them are using the same handful of hosting providers with the same default settings.

The stream is served from freshgrass.streamguys1.com, an address three other entries in the United States use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.