Austrian Digital Radio Bitrates

This page was last updated on September 29 2021
This is a list of Public Service and commercial radio stations in Austria, comparing audio bitrates for online streams, DAB+, and satellite.
Please contact the site with any corrections or additions to this list.

EU Digital Bitrates

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.
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ORF Digital Radio Bitrates ORF (Österreichischer Rundfunk) Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) is an Austrian national public service broadcaster.
Platform		Online		DAB+		Satellite
*ORF (Österreichischer Rundfunk)*
	Station	Bitrate	Audio	Bitrate	Audio	Bitrate	Audio
	Österreich 1	192 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A	256 kbps	Stereo
	Österreich 2 (All Regional variations)	192 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A	256 kbps	Stereo
	Hitradio Ö3	192 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A	160 kbps	Stereo
	FM4	192 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A	192 kbps	Stereo

Österreich 2 Österreich 2 (Ö2) is the overall term used to refer the network of nine regional radio services provided by Austria’s national public service broadcasting organisation ORF. Radio Burgenland: Burgenland Radio Kärnten: Carinthia Radio Niederösterreich: Lower Austria Radio Oberösterreich: Upper Austria Radio Salzburg: Salzburg Radio Steiermark: Styria Radio Tirol: Tyrol and South Tyrol Radio Vorarlberg: Vorarlberg Radio Wien: Vienna

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
	Supra-regional
	Antenne Salzburg	128 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Antenne Tirol	128 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Arabella Gold	?	Stereo	72 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	ARBÖ-Radio	128 kbps	Stereo	72 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	CITY23	?	Stereo	72 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Energy FM (Regional var.)	192 kbps	Stereo	72 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	ERF Plus	320 kbps	Stereo	40 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	jö.live	192 kbps	Stereo	72 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Klassik Radio	?	Stereo	72 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	KroneHit	256 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	LoungeFM	128 kbps	Stereo	40 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	MEGA Radio	?	Stereo	72 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Mein Kinderradio	192 kbps	Stereo	40 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	MUSIKWELLE	192 kbps	Stereo	72 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	NOW Radio	192 kbps	Stereo	72 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Radio 88.6	128 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Radio Arabella	96 kbps	Stereo	72 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Radio Austria	128 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	RADIO FANTASY	?	Stereo	96 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Radio Flamingo	?	Stereo	72 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Radio klassik Stephansdom	128 kbps	Stereo	72 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Radio Maria	160 kbps	Stereo	72 kbps	Stereo	64 kbps	Mono
	Radio RADIESCHEN	?	Stereo	64 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Radio RU	192 kbps	Stereo	72 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Radio SOL	192 kbps	Stereo	72 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Rock Antenne Österreich	128 kbps/64 kbps aac	Stereo	72 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Technikum One	128 kbps	Stereo	80 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A
	Welle 1 (Regional variations)	256 kbps	Stereo	72 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A

	Wien & Niederösterreich (Vienna & Lower Austria)
	98.3 superfly	192 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Donau Radio – Musikwelle	128 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Radio 88.6	128 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

	Kärnten (Carinthia)
	Antenne Kärnten	128 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

	Salzburg
	Radio Alpina	128 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

	Styria
	Antenne Steiermark	128 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Njoy Radio	192 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Radio Soundportal	128 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Radio Grün-Weiß	128 kbps/64 kbps aac	Stereo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Radio Eins			N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

	Tyrol
	Klassik Radio			N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Life Radio (Regional variations)	192 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Radio Osttirol	128 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Radio U1	128 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A	160 kbps	Stereo

	Oberösterreich (Upper Austria)
	Life Radio	192 kbps	Stereo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

	Vorarlberg
	Antenne Vorarlberg	256 kbps/128 kbps aac	Stereo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A


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