SomaFM Deep Space One (32k AAC)

The directory lists two streams in the United States under this name, told apart by a number alone. This page is number thirty-two. Nothing here is taken from the other one.

Out of 1,481 entries in the United States, this one ranks 110. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

Ambient covers 53 of the United States' entries. Tags on this site are always the broadcaster's own first tag and never a second one, because a station tagged five ways would otherwise appear on five shelves and turn each of them into a tag cloud.

Worldwide it ranks 31 among 171 ambient entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

SomaFM Deep Space One (32k AAC) streams at 32 kbps against the United States' median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 49% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

37 of the United States' entries are served from ice6.somafm.com, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.