SomaFM Vaporwaves (128k AAC)

Out of 1,481 entries in the United States, this one ranks 214. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

SomaFM Vaporwaves (128k AAC) broadcasts in English, which is the language most of the United States' stations in the directory use. The country's listing records six languages in total, so the English stations are the body of the dial rather than the whole of it.

4 stations in the United States lead with vaporwave and SomaFM Vaporwaves (128k AAC) is one of them, though the tag does not make the country's headline list. Across the whole directory 4 stations use it first, so the rail below runs well past United States.

The stream is AAC. the United States' dial is split across three formats rather than settled on one, with MP3 the commonest, so this station is on a well populated side of a genuinely mixed listing.

36 of the United States' entries are served from ice2.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.