SomaFM Heavyweight Reggae (128k MP3)

SomaFM Heavyweight Reggae (128k MP3) is one of two entries in the United States whose names are the same but for a number, and this one's number is three. A broadcaster numbering its streams like that is separating feeds, not stations, so read the number as the part that matters.

SomaFM Heavyweight Reggae (128k MP3) sits in the tail of the United States' 1,481 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

The open count against SomaFM Heavyweight Reggae (128k MP3) is one, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

160 kbps, which puts SomaFM Heavyweight Reggae (128k MP3) above the 128 kbps that a typical entry in the United States runs at.

32 of the United States' entries are served from ice5.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.