This page was last updated on October 2 2021
This is a list of Public Service and commercial radio stations in Spain, 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.
| RNE Digital Radio Bitrates Radio Nacional de España (RNE) (National Radio of Spain) is Spain’s national public radio service. |
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| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| RNE Radio Nacional | 128 kbps/176 kbps ADTS | Stereo | 224 kbps | Stereo | 128 kbps | Stereo | |
| RNE Radio Clásica | 128 kbps | Stereo | 224 kbps | Stereo | 320 kbps | Stereo | |
| RNE Radio 3 | 128 kbps/176 kbps ADTS | Stereo | 224 kbps | Stereo | 256 kbps | Stereo | |
| RNE Ràdio 4 (Catalan) | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 128 kbps | Stereo | |
| RNE Radio 5 | 128 kbps | Stereo | 192 kbps | Stereo | 128 kbps | Stereo | |
| RNE Radio Exterior | 128 kbps/128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 128 kbps | Stereo | |
| RNE DAB RNE currently uses DAB Audio codec MPEG 1 Layer II with a bitrate of 224 kbps. |
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| RNE Radio on Satellite RNE National Radio is available on satellte from Eutelsat Hotbird 13B/13C/13E at 13.0°East. RNE national and regional radio is available from Hispasat 30W-5/30W-6 at 30.0°West. |
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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 & Regional Digital Radio Bitrates | ||||||
| Platform | Online | DAB | Satellite | |||
| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio |
| Aragón Radio (All areas) | 96 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo |
| Cadena100 | 128 kbps | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo | 256 kbps | Stereo |
| Cadena Dial | 128 kbps/57 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 160 kbps | Mono |
| Cope | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo |
| Cope Sat 2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo |
| El Mundo Radio | N/A | N/A | 160 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Europa FM | 128 kbps/128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo |
| esRadio | 192 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo |
| Extremadura FM (Cadena SER) | 192 kbps | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo | 256 kbps | Stereo |
| Hit FM | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 192 kbps | Stereo |
| Los 40 | 57 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 160 kbps | Mono |
| Los 40 Classic | 128 kbps/57 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 160 kbps | Mono |
| Los 40 Urban | 57 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 160 kbps | Mono |
| MegaStar | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 256 kbps | Stereo |
| Melodia FM | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo | 256 kbps | Stereo |
| Onda Cero | 128 kbps | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo | 256 kbps | Stereo |
| Radio Galega | 192 kbps | Stereo | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Radio Galega Música | 192 kbps | Stereo | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Radio Intereconomía | 128 kbps | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Radio Marca | 256 kbps | Stereo | 160 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A |
| Radio Maria | 48 kbps | Mono | 96 kbps | Stereo | 256 kbps | tereo |
| Radiolé | 128 kbps/57 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 160 kbps | Mono |
| 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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