Radio is a Foreign Country

In the United States' ordering this is number 755 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 two recorded opens, Radio is a Foreign Country 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.

Only two entries in the United States put ethnic first. The tag is self-declared and inconsistent between countries, which is why the rail below is worth more as a way of wandering than as a filter.

At 192 kbps the stream is on the better side of the United States' dial, where the median is 128 kbps. Not dramatically so, and bitrate is only one of several things that decide whether a stream sounds good, but it is the one the directory records.

The stream is served from s5.radio.co, 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.