This page was last updated on August 24 2021
This is a list of Public Service and commercial radio stations in Finland, 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.
| Yle Digital Radio Bitrates Yleisradio Oy (Rundradion Ab), is Finland’s national public broadcasting company. |
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| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| Yle Radio 1 | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| YleX | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Yle Radio Suomi (Regional variations) | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Yle Vega (Regional variations) | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Yle Puhe | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Yle X3M | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| DAB There are currently no DAB/DAB+ transmissions in Finland. |
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| Yle Radio Suomi Helsinki Hämeenlinna Joensuu Jyväskylä Kajaani Kemi Kokkola Kotka Kuopio Lahti Lappeenranta Mikkeli Oulu Pohjanmaa (Vaasa and Seinäjoki) Pori Rovaniemi Sámi Radio Tampere Turku |
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| Yle Vega Huvudstadsregionen (Helsinki) Västnyland (Raasepori) Östnyland (Porvoo) Österbotten (Vaasa) Åboland (Turku) |
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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 | |
| Bassoradio | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Classic | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Helmiradio | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Iskelmä | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Kiss FM (Finland) | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Loop | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| NRJ (Finland) | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Aalto | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio City | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Dei | 256 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Nostalgia | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Nova | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Patmos | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Rock | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Suomipop | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio SuomiRock | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| 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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