SomaFM Sonic Universe (32k AAC)

SomaFM Sonic Universe (32k AAC) is one of two 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.

Among the 1,481 stations in the United States with pages, SomaFM Sonic Universe (32k AAC) is around the halfway mark. Anything in this stretch is reachable from the country's numbered pages rather than from its front table, which is why those pages exist.

Two recorded opens in the public directory. That is a trace rather than a measurement, and it is the reason this page describes where the station sits rather than how popular it is.

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.

The stream address on this entry points at ice6.somafm.com, which is where 36 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.