Smooth Lounge Global Radio

In the United States' ordering this is number 574 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 three recorded opens, Smooth Lounge Global Radio 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.

The language field is empty for this entry. It is left empty here too rather than filled from the country, because the shelves on this site are only worth using if what is on them was actually declared.

21 stations in the United States lead with jazz and Smooth Lounge Global Radio is one of them, though the tag does not make the country's headline list. Across the whole directory 127 stations use it first, so the rail below runs well past United States.

Twice the local median and then some: 256 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.

Its audio comes from smoothjazz.cdnstream1.com. Six other stations in the United States stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.