This page was last updated on October 1 2021
This is a list of Public Service and commercial radio stations in Hungary, 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, Online, DAB+ and satellite.
Please email any corrections or additional information and have them included.
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| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| Magyar Rádió Magyar Rádió (MR) is Hungary’s publicly funded radio broadcasting organisation. |
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| Kossuth Rádió 1 | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | 192 kbps aac | Stereo | 160 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| Petőfi Rádió 2 | 112 kbps aac | Stereo | 192 kbps aac | Stereo | 256 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| Bartók Rádió 3 | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | 192 kbps aac | Stereo | 256 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| Dankó Rádió 4 | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | 192 kbps aac | Stereo | 256 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| Nemzetiségi Rádió | 40 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| Parlamenti Adások | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 80 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| Duna World Rádió | 40 kbps | Mono | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps aac | Stereo | |
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 | |
| BEST FM | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Európa Rádió | 96 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| InfoRadio | 96 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps aac | Mono | N/A | N/A | |
| JAZZY RÁDIÓ | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 128 kbps | Stereo | |
| Karc FM | 160 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Klasszik Rádió | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Klubrádió | 96 kbps | Stereo | 48 kbps aac | Mono | N/A | N/A | |
| Lanchid Radio | 320 kbps | Stereo | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Magyar Katolikus Rádió | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 160 kbps aac | Stereo | |
| Mária Rádió (Hungary) | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 128 kbps | Stereo | |
| Rádió 1 | 256 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Retro Rádió | 256 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Sláger FM | 256 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 128 kbps | Stereo | |
| Trend FM | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| TRIÓ Rádió | 256 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 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. Currently available in and around Budapest. |
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| 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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