This page was last updated on September 27 2021
This is a list of Public Service and commercial radio stations in Bulgaria, 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.
| BNR Digital Radio Bitrates Bulgarian National Radio (Българско национално радио) is Bulgaria’s national radio broadcasting organisation. It operates two national and nine regional channels, as well as an international service – Radio Bulgaria – which broadcasts in 11 languages. |
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| Platform | Online | DAB+ | Satellite | ||||
| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| BNR Horizont | 38 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo | |
| BNR Hristo Botev | 38 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo | |
| BNR Radio Blagoevgrad | 38 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo | |
| Radio Burgas | 38 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo | |
| Radio Kardzhali | 38 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo | |
| Radio Plovdiv | 38 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo | |
| Radio Shumen | 38 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo | |
| Radio Bulgaria | 38 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo | |
| Radio Stara Zagora | 38 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo | |
| Radio Varna | 38 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo | |
| Radio Vidin | 38 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo | |
| DAB/DAB+ There are currently no DAB/DAB+ transmissions in Bulgaria. |
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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 | |
| Avtoradio | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo | |
| Bulgaria on air | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| BG Radio | 48 kbps | Mono | N/A | N/A | 384 kbps | Stereo | |
| bTV Radio | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 192 kbps | Stereo | |
| City Radio | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Classic FM (Bulgaria) | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| Darik Radio | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 160 kbps | Stereo | |
| Darik Burgas | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| Darik Haskovo | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| Darik Kurstendil | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| Darik Nostalgie | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| Darik Plodiv | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| Darik Ruse | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| Darik Varna | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| Darik Vratza | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| Energy (Bulgaria) | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo | |
| FM+ | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 192 kbps | Stereo | |
| Focus Sofia & Pirin | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 192 kbps | Stereo | |
| Fresh | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 192 kbps | Stereo | |
| Jazz FM (Bulgaria) | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| Magic FM (Bulgaria) | 36 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 192 kbps | Stereo | |
| Melody Radio | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Nova News | 48 kbps | Mono | N/A | N/A | 192 kbps | Stereo | |
| NRJ (Bulgaria) | 48 kbps | Mono | N/A | N/A | 160 kbps | Stereo | |
| N-JOY (Bulgaria) | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 192 kbps | Stereo | |
| Radio 1 | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 384 kbps | Stereo | |
| Radio 1 Rock | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo | |
| Radio City | 48 kbps | Mono | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo | |
| Radio Nova | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Payner | Unknown | Unknown | N/A | N/A | 160 kbps | Stereo | |
| Radio Vitosha | Unknown | Unknown | N/A | N/A | 192 kbps | Stereo | |
| Radio Viva | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Zetra | 256 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| RNE | Unknown | Unknown | N/A | N/A | 192 kbps | Stereo | |
| Tangra MegaRock | 128 kbps/128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 160 kbps | Stereo | |
| The Voice (Bulgaria) | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 192 kbps | Stereo | |
| Veronica | 48 kbps | Mono | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo | |
| Veselina | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 192 kbps | Stereo | |
| Z-Rock | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 192 kbps | Stereo | |
| 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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