This page was last updated on October 2 2021
This is a list of Public Service and commercial radio stations in Portugal, comparing audio bitrates for online streams, DAB+, and satellite.
Please contact the site with any corrections or additions to this list.
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.
| RTP Digital Radio Bitrates Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP), is the public service broadcasting organisation of Portugal. |
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| Platform | Online | DAB+ | Satellite | ||||
| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| RTP Antena 1 | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo | |
| RTP Antena 2 | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 128 kbps | Stereo | |
| RTP Antena 3 | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 128 kbps | Stereo | |
| RDP Internacional | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo | |
| RDP Africa | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 128 kbps | Stereo | |
| Rádio Lusitânia | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 128 kbps | Stereo | |
| DAB+ Expansion of the DAB network awaits a decision by the Portuguese government. It is likely that future rollout will use DAB+. |
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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 & National Digital Radio Bitrates | ||||||
| Platform | Online | DAB+ | Satellite | |||
| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio |
| Global Media Group | ||||||
| TSF | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | Hispasat | Stereo |
| Grupo Media Capital | ||||||
| Cidade | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 128 kbps | Stereo |
| M80 Radio | 128 – 132 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 128 kbps | Stereo |
| Rádio Comercial | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 128 kbps | Stereo |
| Smooth FM (Portugal) | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 128 kbps | Stereo |
| Vodaphone FM | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Grupo Renascença | ||||||
| Mega Hits | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 128 kbps | Stereo |
| Rádio Renascença | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 128 kbps | Stereo |
| RFM | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 128 kbps | Stereo |
| Lusocanal|Grupo Lusocanal / Música no Coração | ||||||
| Oxigénio | 192 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Rádio Radar | 192 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Other Stations | ||||||
| Radio Maria (Portugal) | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| DAB+ Expansion of the DAB network awaits a decision by the Portuguese government. It is likely that future rollout will use DAB+. |
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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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