This page was last updated April 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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European Digital Bitrates
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.
| Rai Digital Radio Bitrates | |||||||
| Platform | Online | DAB+ | Satellite | ||||
| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| Rai Radio 1 | 192 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| Rai Radio 2 | 192 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| Rai Radio 3 | 192 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| Rai Radio 3 Classica | 192 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| Rai Gr Parlamento | 128 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| Rai Isoradio | 128 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| Rai Südtirol | N/A | N/A | |||||
| Rai Radio Trst A | N/A | N/A | |||||
| Rai Radio Tutta Italiana | 192 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| Rai Radio Techete’ | 192 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| Rai Radio Live | 192 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| Rai Radio Kids | 192 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| Rai Radio 1 Sport | 192 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| Rai Radio 2 Indie | 192 kbps | Stereo | |||||
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 | |
