This page was last updated on July 8 2021
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.
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.
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| SRF (Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen) | |||||||
| SRF 1 | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| SRF 2 Kultur | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| SRF 3 | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| SRF 4 News | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| SRF Musikwelle | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| SRF Virus | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| SRF 1 AG SO | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| SRF 1 BS | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| SRF 1 BE FR VS | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| SRF 1 LU | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| SRF 1 SG | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| SRF 1 ZH SH | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| SRF 1 GR | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
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| RTS (Radio Télévision Suisse) | |||||||
| RTS 1ere | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| Espace 2 | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| Couleur3 | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| Option Musique | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
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| RSI (Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana) | |||||||
| Rete Uno | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| Rete Due | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| Rete Tre | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
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| RTR (Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha) | |||||||
| Radio Rumantsch | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
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| Swiss Classic | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| Swiss Pop | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| Swiss Jazz | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| Swiss Classique | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| Swiss Classica | 256 kbps | Stereo | |||||
| 256 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 |
| 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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