Radio Paradise Mellow Mix FLAC

Radio Paradise Mellow Mix FLAC ranks 141 among 1,481 stations in the United States. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

Tagged california, along with 11 other stations in the country and 12 across the directory.

Twice the local median and then some: 1441 kbps where the United States' stations typically manage 128. Whether you can hear the difference depends entirely on what you are listening on, but the headroom is there.

The stream is OGG, which is unusual anywhere: the United States' listing is dominated by MP3. Formats outside the common three are typically a deliberate choice by a broadcaster who cares about the encoding chain, and they are also the ones most likely to give a browser trouble.

The stream address on this entry points at stream.radioparadise.com, which is where 11 other stations in the United States are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.