Belgium Digital Radio Bitrates

This page was last updated on April 27 2020
This is a list of Public Service and commercial radio stations in , comparing audio bitrates for online streams, DAB+, and satellite.
Please contact the site with any corrections or additions to this list.

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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)

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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.

PSB Digital Radio Bitrates
Platform		Online		DAB+		Satellite
VRT Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie (VRT), is the national public-service broadcaster for the Flemish Community of Belgium.
	Station	Bitrate	Audio	Bitrate	Audio	Bitrate	Audio
	VRT Radio 1					160 kbps	Stereo
	VRT Radio 2					160 kbps	Stereo
	VRT Klara					N/A	N/A
	VRT Studio Brussel					N/A	N/A
	VRT MNM					N/A	N/A
RTBF Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française (RTBF) is a public service broadcaster delivering radio and television services to the French-speaking Community of Belgium, in Wallonia and Brussels.
	Station	Bitrate	Audio	Bitrate	Audio	Bitrate	Audio
	La Première
	VivaCité
	Classic 21
	Tipik
	Musiq’3
	RTBF Mix
Belgischer Rundfunk (BRF) Belgischer Rundfunk (BRF) is a public-service broadcasting organisation serving the German-speaking Community of Belgium.
	Station	Bitrate	Audio	Bitrate	Audio	Bitrate	Audio
	BRF 1					N/A	N/A
	BRF 2					N/A	N/A
	BRF-DLF					N/A	N/A
						N/A	N/A
RTBF Radio on satellite Some RTBF Radio stations are available on satellite from the Eutelsat Hotbird satellite at 13° East, unfortunately, all stations are encrypted and are not free-to-air.
RTBF International RTBF International, la chaîne radio internationale de la RTBF, diffuse une grande partie des émissions de La Première et de VivaCité et vous permet d’être à l’écoute de la Belgique, de son actualité politique, sociale, économique, culturelle, sportive et musicale. RTBFi diffuse en clair et en numérique l’ensemble de ses programmes, 24h/24, sur le satellite Atlantic Bird 3 (AB 3) en Afrique.

 

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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 in Belgium
Platform		Online		DAB+		Satellite
Vlaanderen (Flanders)
	Station	Bitrate	Audio	Bitrate	Audio	Bitrate	Audio
	NRJ België					Encrypted	Encrypted
	Family Radio
	Hit FM
	JOE (National)
	Nostalgie (National)
	Qmusic (National)
	Radio FG
	Radio Maria (Catholic radio)
	TOPradio (Dance)
	VBRO (Dutch music)
	Wallonia
	Nostalgie Belgique (Eutelsat 5 at 5.0°W)
	NRJ Belgique(Eutelsat 5 at 5.0°W)
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.
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
Software Foobar2000 iTunes VLC Player Winamp