1. Does this station exhibit thoughtful curation?
2. Does it broadcast audio to an accessible internet endpoint (not just Twitch or YouTube)?
3. Is it independent, listener-supported, student-run, and/or a community institution?
4. Is there something unique or interesting about this station (its location, genre focus, attitude)?

1. Basic information (name, location, logo, website, socials)
2. Support information (where to donate or contribute to the station)
3. Stream endpoint (where does the music play?)
4. Data endpoint and structure (where can we find what’s playing, and how do we parse the information?)
5. How we’d describe it to a friend

Every minute, we check what’s playing (the show, and if available, artwork, song, artist, DJ, genres, description, listener count) and publish it across our One Radio platforms.

Every 15 minutes (for freshly added stations) or every few hours (for stations we’ve already gotten a good picture of), we listen in to what’s playing using either the station-provided song info or, if that’s not available, a Shazam-like service called ACRCloud. We then look up the song across a handful of databases (e.g. Last.fm) to gather information about its genre, release year, and obscurity (e.g. how many plays does this track have?) and record it. You can see this information at one.radio/dna and summarized for each station by clicking the “ⓘ” button or “DNA” in the app.

Our goal in tracking this information is equally to help inform your discovery as it is for us to keep our fingers on the pulses of the stations we feature and the ever-evolving character of the top echelon of internet radio as a whole.

Please email brayden@one.radio, message us on Instagram (@one.radio), or request a station through our form.