This page was last updated on July 8 2021
This is a list of Public Service and commercial radio stations in , comparing audio bitrates for online streams, DAB/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/DAB+, Terrstrial and satellite.
Please email any corrections or additional information and have them included.
| RTÉ Digital Radio Bitrates | |||||||
| Platform | Online | DAB/DAB+ | Satellite | ||||
| RTÉ RTÉ Radio is a division of the Irish national broadcasting organisation Raidió Teilifís Éireann. RTÉ Radio broadcasts four analogue channels and five digital channels nationwide. |
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| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| RTÉ Radio 1 | 96 kbps | Stereo | 128 kbps | Stereo | 128 kbps | Stereo | |
| RTÉ 2FM | 160 kbps | Stereo | 128 kbps | Stereo | 128 kbps | Stereo | |
| RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta | 96 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps | Mono | 128 kbps | Stereo | |
| RTÉ Lyric FM | 160 kbps | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo | 128 kbps | Stereo | |
| RTÉ 2XM | 96 kbps | Stereo | 112 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps * | Stereo | |
| RTÉ Chill | 96 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps | Mono | 48 kbps * | Stereo | |
| RTÉ Gold | 96 kbps | Stereo | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps * | Stereo | |
| RTÉ Junior | 96 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps | Mono | 48 kbps * | Stereo | |
| RTÉ Pulse | 320 kbps aac | Stereo | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps * | Stereo | |
| RTÉ Radio 1 Extra | 96 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps | Mono | 48 kbps * | Stereo | |
| RTÉ DAB RTÉ Radio on DAB, currently uses MPEG 1 Layer II and not DAB+. *RTÉ Radio is alo available on DAB+ in Dublin on Minimux 1 using a bitrate of 48 kbps, Stereo HE-AAC v2. |
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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 |
| Classic Hits | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Newstalk | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps | Stereo | 192 kbps | Mono |
| Radio Maria | 32 kbps | Mono | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Spirit Radio | 64 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Today FM | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Beat 102103 | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | 48 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Clare fm | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Classic Hits 4fm | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Cork’s 96fm | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Cork’s Red FM | 128 kbps/64 kbps aac | Stereo | 48 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Dublin’s FM | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Dublins FM104 | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Dundalk FM | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| East Coast FM | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Galway Bay FM | 192 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Highland Radio | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| KCLR 96 FM (Kilkenny) | 64 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Limerick FM | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Limerick Live 95 | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| LMFM | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Midlands 103 | 320 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| MidWest Radio | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Northern Sound | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Ocean FM | 160 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Q102 | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Radio Kerry | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Radio Nova | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Radio Ri Ra | 96 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Shannonside FM | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| South East Radio | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Spin | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Tipp FM | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| WLR | 92 kbps aac | Stereo | 48 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| DAB+ Minimux 1 and Minimux 2 (DAB+), are only currently available in and around Dublin. Stations are currently broadcasting at 48 kbps Stereo HE-AAC v2. |
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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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