SomaFM Space Station Soma (128k AAC)

SomaFM Space Station Soma (128k 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 one hundred and twenty-eight. A broadcaster numbering its streams like that is separating feeds, not stations, so read the number as the part that matters.

In the United States' listing SomaFM Space Station Soma (128k AAC) lands at 28 of 1,481, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

The directory counts 51 opens against this stream. That is well above the United States' median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.

The audio comes from ice5.somafm.com, and 31 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.