Rainwave Chill

Position 764 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.

No bitrate is recorded against this stream. It is a common gap: the value is scraped from the stream's headers and plenty of servers do not send them. Press play and your browser will tell you more in two seconds than the field would have.

Rainwave Chill streams in OGG rather than the MP3 that most of the United States' dial uses. Uncommon codecs are worth noticing for a practical reason as well as a nerdy one: browser support for them is thinner than for MP3 and AAC.

Its audio comes from relay.rainwave.cc. One other station in the United States streams from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.

The station's site is at rainwave.cc, which sits under the .cc country domain rather than the United States'. That mismatch is usually mundane, a host or a parent organisation registered elsewhere, and it is the kind of small inconsistency worth seeing rather than smoothing over.