SomaFM Left Coast 70s (320k MP3)

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 Left Coast 70s (320k MP3) has 33 recorded opens in the public directory, which is a real number by the standards of this data set. Most entries never reach double figures, so a count at this level means the stream has been found and played repeatedly by people using directory clients rather than the broadcaster's own site.

At 320 kbps, SomaFM Left Coast 70s (320k 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.