This page was last updated on September 23 2021
This is a list of Public Service and commercial radio stations in Malta, 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.
| PBS Digital Radio Bitrates Public Broadcasting Services Limited (PBS) is the public broadcaster of Malta. PBS is funded by government which grants the sale of commercial airtime. |
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| Platform | Online | DAB+ | Satellite | ||||
| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| Radju Malta | 192 kbps | Stereo | 40 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Radju Malta 2 | 192 kbps | Stereo | 40 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Magic Malta | 128 kbps | Stereo | 96 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
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 | |
| Bay Radio | 256 kbps | Stereo | 112 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Calypso Radio | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Campus FM | 192 kbps | Stereo | 40 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| MICS FM | 96 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| NET FM / Radio 101 | 96 kbps | Stereo | 89 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| ONE Radio | 256 kbps | Stereo | 40 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio City 98FM | 96 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Galaxy | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radju BKR | 128 kbps | Stereo | 40 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Radju Leħen il-Qala | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radju Luminaria | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radju Marija | 32 kbps | Mono | 32 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| RAVE Radio | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Smash Radio | Unknown | Stereo | 40 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Vibe FM | 128 kbps | Stereo | 72 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Xfm Malta | kbps aac | Stereo | 48 kbps aac | Stereo | 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. |
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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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