This page was last updated on October 1 2021
This is a list of Public Service and commercial radio stations in Latvia, 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.
| Latvijas Radio (LR) Digital Radio Bitrates Latvijas Radio (LR) is Latvia’s national public-service radio broadcasting network. |
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| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| Latvijas Radio 1 | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Latvijas Radio 2 | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Latvijas Radio 3 | 192 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Latvijas Radio 4 | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Latvijas Radio 5 | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Latvijas Radio 6 Radio NABA | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| DAB+ There are currently no DAB/DAB+ radio transmissions in Latvia. |
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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 | |||||||
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| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| Capital FM (Latvia) | 96 kbps/48 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Divu Krastu Radio | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| EHR Superhits | 96 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| European Hit Radio | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Kurzemes Radio | 112 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Latgolys radeja | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Marija Latvija | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 64 kbps | Mono | |
| Radio Skonto | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio SWH | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio SWH + | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio SWH Rock | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio TEV | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Star FM | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| TOPradio | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| XOfm | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| DAB+ Radio There are currently no DAB/DAB+ transmissions in Latvia. |
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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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