US · San Francisco CA · English
SomaFM Drone Zone (256k MP3)
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- ambient
- atmospheric
256 kbps · MP3 · Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
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What the directory records
Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Format
- MP3
- Stream
- Direct https
- Last catalogue check
- Stream answered
- Broadcaster
- somafm.com
The directory lists two streams in the United States under this name, told apart by a number alone. This page is number three. Nothing here is taken from the other one.
SomaFM Drone Zone (256k MP3) ranks 111 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.
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.
Across every country, SomaFM Drone Zone (256k MP3) is 32 of the 171 stations leading with ambient, by the same open count the country list uses.
256 kbps against the United States' median of 128. Streams at this rate are the ones worth finding a good pair of headphones for, and they are uncommon: 49% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps at all.
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.
SomaFM Drone Zone (256k MP3) and SomaFM Lush (128k AAC) are described by the directory in very nearly the same fields, which makes the differences between them worth stating rather than leaving to be inferred. The number each one is named for is the difference between them: three here and one hundred and twenty-eight there. This entry records San Francisco CA as the region it transmits from, and the other records no region at all. The two streams are served from different addresses, ice6.somafm.com for this one and ice5.somafm.com for the other. This one is encoded as MP3 and that one as AAC, which is a difference a browser can hear about before you can. The directory puts this stream at two hundred and fifty-six kilobits and the other at one hundred and twenty-eight. The broadcaster tagged this entry ambient and atmospheric, which the other entry is not tagged with.
- City or region
- San Francisco CA
- Country
- United States
SomaFM Drone Zone (256k MP3) is one of 3,967 playable stations the catalogue lists in United States, and one of the smaller number that say where in the country they transmit from.
These are counts of what people did inside the public radio-browser catalogue and the apps that read it, over the whole life of the entry. They are not our own figures and they are not an audience measurement: most entries in this catalogue sit under five all-time plays, so a small number here means the catalogue has little to say about this station rather than that nobody listens to it.
Broadcast by SomaFM Drone Zone (256k MP3). Stream served directly by the broadcaster. Their own site is at somafm.com.
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