This page was last updated on August 20 2021
This is a list of Public Service and commercial radio stations in Estonia, comparing audio bitrates for online streams.
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.
| ERR Digital Radio Bitrates Eesti Rahvusringhääling (ERR) – Estonian Public Broadcasting – is a publicly funded radio and television organisation created in Estonia. |
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| Platform | Online | DAB+ | Satellite | ||||
| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| Vikerraadio | 128 kbps/256 kbps ADTS | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Raadio 2 | 128 kbps/256 kbps ADTS | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Klassikaraadio | 256 kbps ADTS | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Raadio 4 | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Raadio Tallinn | 256 kbps ADTS | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| For more information on ERR see: https://vikerraadio.err.ee | |||||||
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 | |
| Pereraadio Network | |||||||
| Pereraadio | 128 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Semeinoje Radio Eli | 128 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
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| Postimees Grupp | |||||||
| DFM Eesti | 256 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| MyHits | 320 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Narodnoe radio | 256 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Radio Elmar | 256 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Radio Kuku | 320 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| TV3 Group | |||||||
| Power Hit Radio | 96 kbps aac | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Radio Volna | 96 kbps aac | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Star FM | 32 kbps | Mono | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Sky Media Group | |||||||
| NRJ Estonia | 128 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Retro FM | 320 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Rock FM (Estonia) | 320 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Russkoye Radio | 320 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Sky Plus | 320 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Sky Radio | 320 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Tre Raadio Network | |||||||
| Ring FM | 160 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Ruut FM | 128 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Tre Raadio | 128 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| N/A | N/A | N/A | |||||
| Other Stations | |||||||
| Äripäeva Raadio | 112 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Relax FM | 320 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Raadio 7 | 256 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Yumor FM | 128 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Regional Stations | |||||||
| Kaguraadio (Põlva) | 112 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Nõmme Raadio (Tallinn) | 320 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Raadio Kadi (Saaremaa and Hiiumaa) | 128 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| SSS-Radio (Finnish-language station in Tallinn) | 320 kbps | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| 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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