Romanian Digital Radio Bitrates

This page was last updated on September 26 2021
This is a list of Public Service and commercial radio stations in Romania, 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.

 Radio România Digital Radio Bitrates
 Societatea Română de Radiodifuziune (Radio România), is the public radio broadcaster in Romania. 
Platform Online DAB Satellite 
  Station Bitrate Audio Bitrate Audio Bitrate Audio
Radio România
Societatea Română de Radiodifuziune (Radio România), is the public radio broadcaster in Romania. It operates FM and AM, and internet national and local radio channels. The local stations are branded under the Radio România Regional umbrella. Radio Romania International is the company’s international radio station.
Radio România Actualități 128 kbps/64 kbps aac Stereo 192 kbps Stereo 192 kbps Stereo
Radio România Cultural 256 kbps/96 kbps aac Stereo 192 kbps Stereo 112 kbps Stereo
Radio România Muzical 128 kbps Stereo 192 kbps Stereo 192 kbps Stereo
Radio 3Net 256 kbps Stereo 192 kbps Stereo N/A N/A
Radio Antena Satelor 128 kbps Stereo 32 kbps Mono 192 kbps Stereo
Radio Romania International 1 64 kbps/64 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A 112 kbps Stereo
Radio Romania International 2 64 kbps/64 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A 96 kbps Stereo
Radio Romania International 3 64 kbps/64 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A 96 kbps Stereo
Radio România Regional

  • Radio Antena Brașovului
  • Radio București
  • Radio Cluj
  • Radio Constanța
  • Radio Craiova
  • Radio Iași
  • Radio Mureș
  • Radio Reșița
  • Radio Sighet
  • Radio Timișoara
  • Radio Vacanța
DAB Radio
Please note that DAB radio (not DAB+) is currently only available in and around Bucharest.

 

 

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
Chill FM 192 kbps Stereo N/A N/A 256 kbps Stereo
City Rádió 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
Dance FM 160 kbps Stereo N/A N/A 256 kbps Stereo
Digi FM 184 kbps Stereo N/A N/A 256 kbps Stereo
Europa FM 64 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A 256 kbps Stereo
Favorit FM 56 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A 128 kbps aac Stereo
Itsy Bitsy 32 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A 256 kbps Stereo
Jazz FM (Romania) 320 kbps Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
Kiss FM (Romania) 80 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A 256 kbps Stereo
Magic FM (Romania) 64 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
Metronom FM 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
Mix FM 48 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
National FM 64 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A 128 kbps aac Stereo
OneFM 80 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
Pro FM Bucuresti 192 kbps Stereo N/A N/A 256 kbps Stereo
Radio Bucuresti FM 128 kbps Stereo 192 kbps Stereo N/A N/A
Rádió GaGa 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A 128 kbps Stereo
Radio Guerrilla 48 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
Radio Maria (Romania) 32 kbps Mono N/A N/A 128 kbps Stereo
Radio Total 128 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
Radio Trinitas 32 kbps aac Mono N/A N/A 256 kbps Stereo
Radio Vocea Sperantei 96 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A 256 kbps Stereo
Radio Vox FM 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
Radio ZU 48 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A 160 kbps Stereo
Rebel Radio România 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
Romantic FM 48 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A 192 kbps Stereo
Social FM 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
Sport Total FM Unkown (ADTS) Stereo N/A N/A 128 kbps Stereo
Vibe FM Unknown Unknown N/A N/A 256 kbps Stereo
Virgin Radio (Romania) 64 kbps/64 kbps aac Stereo N/A N/A 256 kbps Stereo
Vocea Evangheliei 128 kbps Stereo N/A N/A N/A N/A
DAB Radio
Please note that DAB radio (not DAB+) is currently only available in and around Bucharest.
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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