Audio Streams - UK Radio Portal

What MP3 stream bitrates are supported?

We recommend 192 kbps stereo or 128 kbps stereo MP3 streams for delivery to TV’s, in an IceCast or SHOUTcast format. We are often asked if we can support higher audio bitrates, e.g. 256 kbps or 320 kbps. Whilst we

Radio station audio stream is not working on UKRP website

Only radio station audio streams in an https (https://url…) format can be played on the UK Radio Portal website. This is a general issue not specific to UKRP, due to Internet browsers moving away from supporting a mix of insecure

Is the AAC+ audio stream format supported?

Unfortunately, not fully at this time. Whilst some TV’s and set-top boxes can support AAC+. there are a large number which cannot. Therefore, to maintain maximum compatibility, we only support the MP3, (MPEG-1 Layer III), standard.

As a radio station, how can we measure the usage of streams served to TV’s?

UK Radio Portal has been designed to support MP3 audio streams; the same format as used by most radio stations to deliver streams to websites or mobile devices. This should allow the broadcaster to measure stream usage in the same