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+, and satellite.
Please contact the site with any corrections or additions to this list.
EU Digital Bitrates
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)
ADTS
Audio Data Transport Stream (ADTS) is a container format specified by MPEG-4 Part 3 for audio data, intended to be used for streamed audio, such as for Internet radio. It is, essentially, an almost bare stream of AAC audio data, comprised of ADTS frames with a minimal header.
SBR
Spectral Band Replication (SBR) is a technology to enhance audio or speech codecs, especially at low bit rates and is based on harmonic redundancy in the frequency domain.
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.
| NRK Digital Radio Bitrates | ||||||||
| Platform | Online | DAB+ | Satellite | |||||
| Station | Bitrate MP3 | Bitrate AAC | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| NRK P1 Buskerud | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK P1 Finnmark | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK P1 Hordaland | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK P1 Innlandet | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK P1 Møre og Romsdal | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK P1 Nordland | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK P1 Rogaland | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK P1 Sogn og Fjordane | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK P1 Sørlandet | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK P1 Telemark | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK P1 Troms | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK P1 Trøndelag | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK P1 Vestfold | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK P1 Østfold | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK P1 Østlandssendingen | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK P2 | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK P3 | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK Klassisk | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK Sami Radio | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK mP3 | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK Alltid Nyheter | 192 kbps | 107 – 154 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK P13 | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK Været til sjøs | N/A | N/A | N/A | 24 kbps aac | Mono | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK Radio Super | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK P1+ | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK Jazz | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK Sport | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK Folkemusikk | 192 kbps | 107 – 128 kbps | Stereo | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | 60 – 72 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| NRK Trafikk | N/A | N/A | N/A | 24 kbps aac | Mono | N/A | N/A | |
| NRK on satellite NRK stations on satellite are all AAC using a variable bitrate of around 60 – 72 kbps. |
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| NRK AAC Streams NRK AAC radio streams use a variable bitrate of between 107 – 154 kbps though are usually around 128 kbps AAC using Audio Data Transport Stream (ADTS) codec and AAC extension SBR (Spectral Band Replication). |
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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 |
| BIG HIPHOP & RNB | 256 kbps | Stereo | 56 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| KISS | 128 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| NORSK POP | 128 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| NRJ NORGE | 128 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| P24-7 KOS | 256 kbps | Stereo | 56 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| P24-7 MIX | 128 kbps | Stereo | 56 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| P4 LydenAvNorge | 128 kbps | Stereo | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| P5 Hits | 192 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| P6 Rock | 128 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| P7 Klem | 128 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| P8 Pop | 128 kbps | Stereo | 56 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| P9 Retro | 128 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| P10 Country | 128 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| RADIO NORGE | 128 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| RADIO ROCK | 128 kbps | Stereo | 72 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| TOPP40 | 128 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| VINYL | 128 kbps | Stereo | 72 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| DAB+ Please note that some stations on DAB+ may not be availanle in all areas. Overspill from neighbouring areas may make reception of some stations available outside of their intended areas of reception. |
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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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