This page was last updated on October 2 2021
This is a list of Public Service and commercial radio stations in Iceland, 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.
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| Platform | Online | DAB+ | Satellite | ||||
| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
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| Rás 1 | 128 kbps/96 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 192kbps | Stereo | |
| Rás 2 | 128 kbps/96 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 192kbps | Stereo | |
| RÚV Rondó | 256 kbps ADTS | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| DAB/DAB+ There are currently no DAB/DAB+ transmissions in Iceland. |
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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 |
| 60’s Flashback | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 70’s Flashback | 224 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 80’s Flashback | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 90’s Flashback | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Apparatið | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Bylgjan | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Bylgjan 989 | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Ekstra | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Flashback | 224 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Flashback FM | 224 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| FM 100 | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| FM 91 | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| FM 97 | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| FM 957 | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| FMX Klassik | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| FM Trölli | 256 kbps ADTS | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| FM Xtra | 160 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Gull Bylgjan | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| K 100 | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Kiss FM (Iceland) | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Létt Bylgjan | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Linden FM | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Radio Flash Back FM | 224 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Radio Saga | 112 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Retro | Unknown | Unknown | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Suðurland FM | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Útvarp Boðun | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Útvarp 101 | 320 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| X-977 | 258 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| DAB/DAB+ There are currently no DAB/DAB+ transmissions in Iceland. |
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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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