US · Minnesota · English
The Current
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- adult album alternative
128 kbps · MP3 · Record last changed 16 Sep 2026
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What the directory records
Record last changed 16 Sep 2026
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Format
- MP3
- Stream
- Direct https
- Last catalogue check
- Stream answered
- Broadcaster
- thecurrent.org
The Current is at 449 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.
The open count against The Current is four, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.
The station's language is English, the commonest of the six the directory records for the United States. Language is one of the two axes this site indexes on, and the English shelf collects these stations across every country that carries them.
The station's leading tag is adult album alternative, shared with 4 other entries in the United States. It is a well populated tag here without being one of the country's defining ones, which is a common and unremarkable place for a station to sit.
The stream is served from current.stream.publicradio.org, an address one other entry in the United States uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.
- City or region
- Minnesota
- Country
- United States
The Current is one of 3,967 playable stations the catalogue lists in United States, and one of the smaller number that say where in the country they transmit from.
These are counts of what people did inside the public radio-browser catalogue and the apps that read it, over the whole life of the entry. They are not our own figures and they are not an audience measurement: most entries in this catalogue sit under five all-time plays, so a small number here means the catalogue has little to say about this station rather than that nobody listens to it.
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