Polish Digital Radio Bitrates

This page was last updated on October 2 2021
This is a list of Public Service and commercial radio stations in Poland, comparing audio bitrates for online streams, DAB+, and satellite.
Please contact the site with any corrections or additions to this list.

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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)

 

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.

Polskie Radio Digital Radio Bitrates
Polskie Radio Spółka Akcyjna (Polish Radio) is Poland’s national public-service radio broadcasting organization owned by the State Treasury of Poland.
Platform Online DAB+ Satellite 
  Station Bitrate Audio Bitrate Audio Bitrate Audio
Polskie Radio Program 1 (Radiowa Jedynka) 192 kbps/128 kbps aac Stereo 112 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A
Polskie Radio Program 2 (Radiowa Dwójka) 192 kbps/128 kbps aac Stereo 128 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A
Polskie Radio Program 3 (Radiowa Trójka) 192 kbps/128 kbps aac Stereo 112 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A
Polskie Radio 24 (PR24) 192 kbps/128 kbps aac Stereo 64 kbps aac Mono N/A N/A
Polskie Radio Chopin 192 kbps aac Stereo 128 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A
Polskie Radio Dzieciom 192 kbps/192 kbps aac Stereo 72 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A
Polskie Radio Kierowców 192 kbps aac Stereo 96 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A
Radio PIK 128 kbps Stereo 112 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A
Radio Poland 48 kbps aac Stereo 64 kbps aac Mono 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.
Regional stations
Polskie Radio also operates 17 regional radio stations (operating on FM, also on DAB+), located in:

  • Białystok
  • Bydgoszcz (Radio Pomorza i Kujaw)
  • Gdańsk
  • Katowice (Radio Katowice)
  • Kielce (Radio Kielce)
  • Koszalin
  • Kraków (Radio Kraków)
  • Lublin (Radio Lublin)
  • Łódź
  • Olsztyn
  • Opole
  • Poznań
  • Rzeszów
  • Szczecin
  • Warszawa (Polskie Radio RDC)
  • Wrocław
  • Zielona Góra (Radio Zachód)
City stations
Polskie Radio offers city stations in:

  • Gorzów Wielkopolski – Radio Gorzów
  • Lublin – Radio Freee
  • Poznań – MC Radio
  • Słupsk – Radio Słupsk
  • Szczecin – Radio Szczecin Extra
  • Wrocław – Radio RAM
  • Zielona Góra – Radio Zielona Góra

 

 

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
Antyradio 128 kbps/128 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A 256 kbps Stereo
Chillizet 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A 256 kbps Stereo
Express FM 128 kbps Stereo 144 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A
Meloradio 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A 256 kbps Stereo
Muzo.fm 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
Muzyczne Radio 192 kbps Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
Radio 5 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
Radio 90 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
Radio Bielsko 128 kbps Stereo 144 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A
Radio Bezpieczna Podróż 128 kbps Stereo 136 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A
Radio CCM 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
Radio Disco 128 kbps Stereo 104 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A
Radio Elka 128 kbps/88 kbps aac Stereo 80 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A
Radio Eska(All regions) 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A 160 kbps aac Stereo
Radio IMPERIUM 192 kbps Stereo 136 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A
Radio JASNA GORA 192 kbps Stereo 136 kbps aac Stereo 192 kbps Stereo
Radio Jura 128 kbps/64 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
Radio Jutrzenka 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
Radio Kaszëbë 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
Radio Leliwa 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
Radio LemFM 192 kbps Stereo 104 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A
Radio LUZ 128 kbps Stereo 104 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A
Radio Maryja 128 kbps aac Stereo 136 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A
Radio Mega 128 kbps Stereo 104 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A
Radio MUZO.FM 128 kbps Stereo 136 kbps aac Stereo 192 kbps Stereo
Radio Nuta 128 kbps Stereo 104 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A
Radio Piekary 128 kbps Stereo 104 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A
Radio Plus (All areas) 248 kbps Stereo N/A N/A 160 kbps aac Stereo
Radio Pogoda 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
Radio Profeto 320 kbps Stereo 104 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A
Radio RAM 128 kbps Stereo 136 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A
Radio Rodzina 192 kbps Stereo 104 kbps aac Stereo 160 kbps aac Stereo
Radio Vox (All areas) N/A N/A 160 kbps aac Stereo
Radio WAWA 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
Radio Wroclaw 128 kbps Stereo 104 kbps aac Stereo 192 kbps Stereo
Radio Zet Gold 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A 256 kbps Stereo
RMF Classic 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A 192 kbps Stereo
RMF FM 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
RMF MAXXX 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A 192 kbps Stereo
Rock Radio 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A 160 kbps aac Stereo
TOK FM 128 kbps/44 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A 192 kbps Stereo
VOX FM Unknown Unknown N/A N/A N/A N/A
Złote Przeboje 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A 192 kbps Stereo
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.
Satellite
Polish radio stations on satellite are available from Hotbird at 13° East & Astra 3B at 23.5° East.
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

 

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