SomaFM Groove Salad (256k MP3)

The directory lists three 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 two.

In the United States' listing SomaFM Groove Salad (256k MP3) lands at 211 of 1,481, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

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.

At 256 kbps, SomaFM Groove Salad (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 audio comes from ice2.somafm.com, and 35 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.