SomaFM Indie Pop Rocks! (32k AAC)

SomaFM Indie Pop Rocks! (32k AAC) is one of three entries in the United States whose names are the same but for a number, and this one's number is thirty-two. A broadcaster numbering its streams like that is separating feeds, not stations, so read the number as the part that matters.

SomaFM Indie Pop Rocks! (32k AAC) is at 785 in a listing of 1,481. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

With two recorded opens, SomaFM Indie Pop Rocks! (32k AAC) sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in the United States' list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

The gap here is large: 32 kbps where the United States' stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

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.