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This is a list of Public Service and commercial radio stations in the Czech Republic, 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.
| ČRo Digital Radio Bitrates Český rozhlas (ČRo) is the public radio broadcaster of the Czech Republic, operating since 1923. The service broadcasts throughout the Czech Republic nationally and locally. Its four national services are Radiožurnál, Dvojka, Vltava and Plus. |
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| Platform | Online | DAB+ | Satellite | ||||
| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| ČRo -DVOJKA (National) | 128 kbps/128 kbps aac | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| ČRo-PLUS (National) | 128 kbps/128 kbps aac | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| ČRo-RADIOZURNAL (National) | 128 kbps/256 kbps ogg | Stereo | 40 kbps aac | Stereo | 112 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| ČRo-VLTAVA (National) | 128 kbps/256 kbps ogg | Stereo | 72 kbps aac | Stereo | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| ČRo-Brno | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| ČRo-České Budějovice | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps aac | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| ČRo-Hradec Králové | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| ČRo-Karlovy Vary | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| ČRo-Liberec | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps aac | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| ČRo-Olomouc | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps aac | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| ČRo-Ostrava | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps aac | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| ČRo-Pardubice | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps aac | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| ČRo-Plzeň | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps aac | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| ČRo-Regina DAB Praha | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| ČRo-Radio Prague Int | N/A | N/A | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | |||
| ČRo-Sever | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps aac | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| ČRo-Vysočina | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| ČRo-Zlín | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| ČRo 6 | N/A | N/A | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| ČRo Jazz | 256 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| ČRo D-Dur | 256 kbps | Stereo | 72 kbps aac | Stereo | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| ČRo Retro | 128 kbps | Stereo | 40 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| ČRo-Rádio Junior | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps aac | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| ČRo-REGION (All areas) | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps aac | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| ČRo-WAVE | 128 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | 112 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| For more information on Český rozhlas (ČRo) see: www.portal.rozhlas.cz | |||||||
| For more information on DAB+ in the Czech Republic see: www.digitalradiodab.cz | |||||||
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 | |||||||
| Platform | Online | DAB+ | Satellite | ||||
| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| BLANIK PRAHA | 128 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Cesky Impuls | 128 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Classic Praha | 128 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Country Radio (All areas) | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 192 kbps | Stereo | |
| DAB PLUS TOP 40 | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Evropa 2 | 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Expres FM | 128 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Fajn Radio | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Frekvence 1 | 128 kbps/64 kbps aac | Stereo | 72 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Hitrádio City | 128 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Hitrádio Faktor | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Hitrádio FM | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Hitrádio Orion | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| PIGY RADIO | 128 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| PROGLAS | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | 192 kbps | Stereo | |
| Radio 1 | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio 7 CZ | N/A | N/A | 192 kbps | Stereo | |||
| Radio Beat (All areas) | 128 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | 192 kbps | Stereo | |
| Rádio Blaník | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| RADIO BONTON | 192 kbps/64 kbps aac | Stereo | 40 kbps aac | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Čas | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Dechovka | 128 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Impuls | 128 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Kiss | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Proglas | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio SAMSON | 128 kbps/128 kbps aac | Stereo | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio ZAPAD | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| ROCKZONE | 128 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| ZET | 128 kbps | Stereo | 40 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| 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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