SomaFM Deep Space One (128k MP3)

SomaFM Deep Space One (128k MP3) ranks 61 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.

At 25 recorded opens, SomaFM Deep Space One (128k MP3) is one of the streams that people actually reach through the public directory rather than through a station's own app. The count is the whole basis of the ranking on this site, and it is worth knowing that it measures directory traffic specifically.

53 stations in the United States lead with ambient and SomaFM Deep Space One (128k MP3) is one of them, though the tag does not make the country's headline list. Across the whole directory 171 stations use it first, so the rail below runs well past United States.

On the same tag worldwide it is 12 of 171, which is inside the top quarter of every ambient station the directory carries.

The audio comes from ice6.somafm.com, and 36 other stations in the United States are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of the United States' listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.