This page was last updated on October 1 2021
This is a list of Public Service and commercial radio stations in , comparing audio bitrates for online streams, DAB+, and satellite.
Please contact the site with any corrections or additions to this list.
Audio Information
Joint Stereo – Audio mode in which two channels forming a stereo pair (left and right) are encoded within the one-bit stream and for which stereophonic irrelevance or redundancy is exploited for further bit reduction.
Mono LSF (Low Sampling Frequency) – Low bitrate encoding with halved sampling rate.
HE-AAC (High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding) – More efficient high-quality multichannel and stereo audio codec used with DAB+.
Audio codec: MPEG 1 Layer II
Better than FM quality requires 192-256 kbps
Similar to FM quality requires 160-192 kbps
Acceptable, worse than FM 128-160 kbps
(Based on stereo services)
Audio codec: aacPlus v2
Better than FM quality requires 56-96 kbps
Similar to FM quality requires 40-64 kbps
Acceptable, worse than FM 24-48 kbps
(Based on stereo services)
Public Service Digital Radio Bitrates
This list of digital radio bitrates is provided in good faith, 100% accuracy can not be guaranteed, as changes periodically occur on the various platforms used by Public Service Radio in .
Below are audio bitrate comparisons for the PSB digital radio station, DAB+, Terrstrial and satellite.
Please email any corrections or additional information and have them included.
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| VRT Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie (VRT), is the national public-service broadcaster for the Flemish Community of Belgium. |
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| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| VRT Radio 1 | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo | |
| VRT Radio 2 | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo | |
| VRT Klara | 128 kbps/128 kbps aac | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo | |
| VRT Studio Brussel | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo | |
| VRT MNM | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo | |
| VRT NWS | VRT MNM | Stereo | 64 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
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| RTBF Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française (RTBF) is a public service broadcaster delivering radio and television services to the French-speaking Community of Belgium, in Wallonia and Brussels. |
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| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| La Première | 128 kbps/64 kbps aac | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | Encrypted | Encrypted | |
| VivaCité | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | Encrypted | Encrypted | |
| Classic 21 | 128 kbps/64 kbps aac | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | Encrypted | Encrypted | |
| Tipik | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | Encrypted | Encrypted | |
| Musiq’3 | 128 kbps/128 kbps aac | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | Encrypted | Encrypted | |
| RTBF Mix | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
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| Belgischer Rundfunk (BRF) Belgischer Rundfunk (BRF) is a public-service broadcasting organisation serving the German-speaking Community of Belgium. |
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| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| BRF 1 | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| BRF 2 | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| RTBF Radio on satellite Some RTBF Radio stations are available on satellite from the Eutelsat Hotbird satellite at 13° East, unfortunately, all stations are encrypted and are not free-to-air. |
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| RTBF International RTBF International, la chaîne radio internationale de la RTBF, diffuse une grande partie des émissions de La Première et de VivaCité et vous permet d’être à l’écoute de la Belgique, de son actualité politique, sociale, économique, culturelle, sportive et musicale. RTBFi diffuse en clair et en numérique l’ensemble de ses programmes, 24h/24, sur le satellite Atlantic Bird 3 (AB 3) en Afrique. |
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| BRF In Brussels, BRF 1 and BRF 2 are also available on DAB+ witha bitrate of 48 kbps. |
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Commercial Digital Radio Bitrates
This list of digital radio bitrates is provided in good faith, 100% accuracy can not be guaranteed, as changes periodically occur on the various platforms used.
Below are audio bitrate comparisons for commercial digital radio stations, Online streams, DAB+ and satellite.
Please email any corrections or additional information and have them included.
| Commercial Digital Radio Bitrates in Belgium | |||||||
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| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| NRJ België | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Family Radio | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Hit FM | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| JOE (National) | 128 kbps | Stereo | 88 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Nostalgie (Vlaanderen) | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Qmusic (National) | 128 kbps/64 kbps aac | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio FG | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Maria (Catholic radio) | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| TOPradio (Dance) | 192 kbps/60 kbps aac | Stereo | 88 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| VBRO (Dutch music) | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| Bel RTL | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | 128 kbps | Stereo | |
| Fun Radio | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Contact | 192 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | Unknown | Unknown | |
| Maximum | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | Unknown | Unknown | |
| Nostalgie Belgique | 92 kbps aac | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | 256 kbps | Stereo | |
| NRJ Belgique | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps | Stereo | 256 kbps | Stereo | |
| DAB+ Please note that some stations on DAB+ may not be availanle in all areas. Overspill from neighbouring areas may make reception of some stations available outside of their intended areas of reception. |
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| Stream Formats: Windows Media requires Windows Media Player MP3 requires a streaming MP3 player such as Winamp, iTunes, Foobar2000 or VLC Media player Ogg Vorbis requires an Ogg Vorbis compatible player such as Winamp, Foobar2000 or VLC Media player aacPlus requires an aacPlus player such as Winamp 5.08+, Foobar2000 or VLC Media player |
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| Software Foobar2000 iTunes VLC Player Winamp |
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