iHeart Indie Radio

At position 961 of 1,481, this is one of the stations in the United States that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.

iHeart Indie Radio is the only station in the United States whose first tag is indie electronic, out of 1,481 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in the United States does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only indie electronic station.

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.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.

177 of the United States' entries are served from stream.revma.ihrhls.com, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.

iHeart Indie Radio and 100.3 The Edge 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. The other entry records AR as its region, and the directory holds no region for this one. The broadcaster tagged this entry indie electronic, indie pop and indie rock, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the rock tag and this one does not. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, iheart.com and edgelittlerock.iheart.com.