Greek Digital Radio Bitrates

This page was last updated on October 1 2021
This is a list of Public Service and commercial radio stations in Greece, comparing audio bitrates for online streams, DAB+, and satellite.
Please contact the site with any corrections or additions to this list.

EU Digital Bitrates

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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)

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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.

ERA Digital Radio Bitrates The Hellenic Radio (Ελληνική Ραδιοφωνία) is the main public radio broadcaster in Greece, a subsidiary of public broadcaster Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT). It broadcast four domestic radio channels and the multilingual shortwave radio station Voice of Greece.
Platform		Online		DAB+		Satellite
	Station	Bitrate	Audio	Bitrate	Audio	Bitrate	Audio
	Proto (ERA 1)	128 kbps	Stereo	136 kbps aac	Stereo	224 kbps	Stereo
	Deftero (ERA 2)	128 kbps	Stereo	136 kbps aac	Stereo	224 kbps	Stereo
	Trito (ERA 3)	128 kbps	Stereo	136 kbps aac	Stereo	224 kbps	Stereo
	ERA Sport	128 kbps	Stereo	128 kbps aac	Stereo	160 kbps	Stereo
	Kosmos	128 kbps	Stereo	136 kbps aac	Stereo	224 kbps	Stereo
	Voice of Greece	128 kbps	Stereo	96 kbps aac	Stereo	160 kbps	Stereo
	ERA 7	?????	????	64 kbps aac	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Zeppelin 106.7			N/A	N/A	224 kbps	Stereo
For more information on ERA Radio see: https://webradio.ert.gr
ERA Radio on DAB+ Transmitted on: Band III – 12C – 227.360MHz – (Athens) Transmitted on: Band III – 5A – 174.928MHz – (Thessaloniki) Transmitted on: Band III – 7A – 188.928MHz – (Patras)

 

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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
	1stGreek New Age	192 kbps	Stereo	128 kbps aac	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Classic Rock	????	????	128 kbps aac	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Envy Radio	192 kbps	Stereo	128 kbps aac	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Greek Oldies	????	????	128 kbps aac	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Melody Vintage	????	????	128 kbps aac	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	More 103 Radio	????	????	128 kbps aac	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Radio 2.0	????	????	128 kbps aac	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Radio Gold (Greece)	192 kbps	Stereo	64 kbps aac	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Radio Melody	96 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Radio Stad	????	????	128 kbps aac	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Sok 104.8	320 kbps	Stereo	128 kbps aac	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Soul Central	????	????	128 kbps aac	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Swiss Jazz	????	????	128 kbps aac	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Velvet Radio	128 kbps	Stereo	96 kbps aac	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Viva Radio	192 kbps	Stereo	128 kbps aac	Stereo	N/A	N/A
DAB+ Greece has regular DAB+ services on air in and around the capital city of Athens, as well as part of Thessaloniki in northern Greece, and part of Patras. There is one regular national multiplex on air operated by the state-owned broadcaster ERT. A commercial trial local DAB+ multiplex is also on air in Athens.
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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
Software Foobar2000 iTunes VLC Player Winamp