SomaFM Doomed (256k MP3)

SomaFM Doomed (256k MP3) is at position 270 of the 1,481 stations in the United States with pages here, inside the top quarter of the national listing. That is high enough to be reached by browsing rather than by searching, which is how most of these pages are actually found.

The station's leading tag is ambient, shared with 52 other entries in the United States. It is a well populated tag here without being one of the country's defining ones, which is a common and unremarkable place for a station to sit.

At 256 kbps, SomaFM Doomed (256k MP3) streams at more than double the United States' median of 128 kbps. That is a deliberate choice by whoever runs it: bandwidth is the recurring cost of an internet station, and a rate this far above the local norm is money spent on sounding better than the dial around it.

The stream address on this entry points at ice2.somafm.com, which is where 35 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.

The nearest thing to this entry in United States is Groove Salad 2 (256k MP3). They are not the same station, and these are the facts the catalogue holds that tell them apart. They are filed in different parts of the country: this one under San Francisco CA, that one under California. The two streams are served from different addresses, ice2.somafm.com for this one and ice5.somafm.com for the other. The broadcaster tagged this entry dark and industrial, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the chillout, downtempo and lounge tags and this one does not.