How much bandwidth is used when I listen to Internet radio?
You can calculate this yourself: A radio station always broadcasts at a particular bitrate (you can see the bitrate in the main window of the phonostar-Player while the station is playing). This bitrate is always given as KBit/s. If you’re listening to a station which is broadcasting at 128 KBit/s, this means that 128 KBit are being transferred to you every SECOND. If you divide 128 KBit by 8, you’ll get the number of kilobytes. This means that 16 kilobytes per second are being broadcast to you. Dividing this by 1024 gives you the number of megabytes, etc. For example: If you listen to a station at 128 KBit/s for an hour, 57,600 kilobytes or 56.25 megabytes of data is transferred to you. A station which broadcasts at 32 KBit/s will transfer 14,400 kilobyte or 14.06 megabytes to you in the course of an hour.
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