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This is a list of Public Service and commercial radio stations in the Netherlands, 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.
| NPO Digital Radio Bitrates Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (NPO) is a Dutch public broadcasting organisation that administers public broadcasting services in the Netherlands. |
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| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| NPO Radio 1 | 192 kbps/64 kbps aac | Stereo | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo | |
| NPO Radio 2 | 192 kbps/64 kbps aac | Stereo | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo | |
| NPO 3FM | 192 kbps/64 kbps aac | Stereo | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo | |
| NPO Radio 4 | 192 kbps/64 kbps aac | Stereo | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo | |
| NPO Soul & Jazz | 192 kbps/64 kbps aac | Stereo | 88 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| NPO 3FM KX Radio | 192 kbps/64 kbps aac | Stereo | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| NPO Radio 5 | 192 kbps/64 kbps aac | Stereo | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo | |
| NPO Fun X | 192 kbps/64 kbps aac | Stereo | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo | |
| NPO Fun X Fissa | 192 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| NPO 3FM Alternative | 192 kbps/64 kbps aac | Stereo | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| NPO Radio 4 Concerten | 192 kbps/64 kbps aac | Stereo | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| NPO Sterren NL | 192 kbps/64 kbps aac | Stereo | 88 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| DAB+ Radio All DAB transmissions in Denmark are in DAB+ using HE-AAC v1. |
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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 | ||||||
| Platform | Online | DAB+ | Satellite | |||
| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio |
| 100% NL | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo |
| 538 TOP 50 | 128 kbps/96 kbps aac | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Arrow Classic Rock | 192 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo |
| BNR Nieuwsradio | 128 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo |
| Classic NL | 128 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | 384 kbps | Stereo |
| GLXY – home of rap! | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Groot Nieuws Radio | 128 kbps/96 kbps aac | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Joe | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 160 kbps | Stereo |
| KINK | 192 kbps | Stereo | 56 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| L1 Radio | 96 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 160 kbps | Stereo |
| Magic FM (Nederland) | 192 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Qmusic | 96 kbps/32 kbps aac | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo |
| Qmusic non-stop | 96 kbps/64 kbps aac | Stereo | 48 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Radio 10 | 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo |
| Radio 10 60s&70s | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Radio 538 | 128 kbps/96 kbps aac | Stereo | 88 kbps aac | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo |
| Radio Gelderland | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 160 kbps | Stereo |
| Radio Maria (Nederland) | 160 kbps/96 kbps aac | Stereo | 56 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Radio NL | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Radio Oost | Unknown | Unknown | N/A | N/A | 160 kbps | Stereo |
| Radio Veronica | 128 kbps/64 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo |
| Sky Radio | 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo |
| Sky Radio Hits | 128 kbps/64 kbps aac | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| SLAM! | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo |
| Sublime FM | 192 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| DAB+ Only national DAB+ stations are listed. |
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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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