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== '''Radio Listening Software:'''==
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There are a number of [[Radio devices]], in particular those TV tuner devices which also contain a radio receiver/tuner, for which V4L directly supports. The following list of software applications allow one to control a radio tuner.
There are a number of [[Radio devices]], in particular those TV tuner devices which also contain a radio receiver/tuner, for which V4L directly supports. The following list of software applications allow one to control a radio tuner.


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Gnomeradio and kradio, the most fully featured applications, are not yet available in all distributions and need to be compiled first. Some of the older applications are mature and readily available, but no longer actively developed.
Gnomeradio and kradio, the most fully featured applications, are not yet available in all distributions and need to be compiled first. Some of the older applications are mature and readily available, but no longer actively developed.


* [[fftv]] [http://fftv.sourceforge.net/]
* [http://www.stanford.edu/~blp/fmtools/ fmtools] also for the command-line (most distros)
* [[fmtools]]
** [http://cajun.sourceforge.net/ cajun] for making your own car or home audio system
** [http://www.dashpc.com/ DashPC] for car radio and more from Linux Automotive
* [http://gkrellm.luon.net/gkrellm-radio.phtml gkrellm-radio] -- minimalistic [http://gkrellm.net gkrellm] plugin to control radio tuners
* [http://gkrellm.luon.net/gkrellm-radio.phtml gkrellm-radio] -- minimalistic [http://gkrellm.net gkrellm] plugin to control radio tuners
* [http://www.wh-hms.uni-ulm.de/~mfcn/gnomeradio gnomeradio] -- for Gnome, capable of recording
* [https://projects-old.gnome.org/gnomeradio/ gnomeradio] -- for Gnome, capable of recording
* [http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/ gnuradio] -- the GNU software radio, testing phase; cf. [http://comsec.com/wiki?GnuRadio2.X wiki]
* [http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/ GNU Radio] -- the GNU software radio, testing phase; cf. [http://comsec.com/wiki?GnuRadio2.X wiki]
* [http://foobazco.org/projects/gradio/ gradio] -- in Debian, but not currently active
* [http://foobazco.org/projects/gradio/ gradio] -- in Debian, but not currently active
* [[ivtv-radio]] [http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto:Radio_tuner] -- part of the ivtv-utils package
* [http://kradio.sourceforge.net/ kradio] for KDE
* [http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ MPlayer] -- media player for Linux
* [http://kradio.sourceforge.net/ KRadio] for KDE
* [[MPlayer#Using_MPlayer_for_Radio_Listening|MPlayer]] -- media player for Linux. See link for radio usage information
* [http://linux.bytesex.org/xawtv/ radio] -- a curses-based radio application by Gerd Knorr, part of xawtv; see [http://dc.qut.edu.au/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+radio man page] (most distros)
* [[radio]] -- a n-curses-based radio application (part of the [[Xawtv#Associated_Utilities|xawtv package]])
** [http://w3.misterhouse.net:81/mh/code/public/v4l_radio.pl radio script] part of the [http://w3.misterhouse.net:81/ MisterHouse] project
* [http://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/?p=199 radioshark] -- application to control the griffin radioshark
* [http://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/?p=199 radioshark] -- application to control the griffin radioshark
* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/xdradio/ XDRadio] --- XDialog wrapper for radio listening
* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/xdradio/ XDRadio] --- XDialog wrapper for radio listening
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* [http://silicone.free.fr/xmms-FMRadio/ xmms-fmradio] -- plugin for [http://www.xmms.org/ XMMS], last version autumn 2004, Debian and Red Hat packages
* [http://silicone.free.fr/xmms-FMRadio/ xmms-fmradio] -- plugin for [http://www.xmms.org/ XMMS], last version autumn 2004, Debian and Red Hat packages


==Also See==
'''Also See:''' For [[Radio Data System (RDS)#What devices can receive RDS information|devices capable of receiving RDS information]], see the associated [[Radio Data System (RDS)#User applications|userspace applications]].
* For [[Radio Data System (RDS)#What devices can receive RDS information|devices capable of receiving RDS information]], see the associated [[Radio Data System (RDS)#User applications|userspace applications]].
* [[dvbradio]] (part of the [[xawtv#Associated_Utilities_2|v4 xawtv package]]) as an example of a specific application for listening to radio streams embedded within dvb transport streams

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== User experiences ==
== User experiences ==


If you're a user, post your installation and user experiences here!
If you're a user, post your installation and user experiences here!

=== fmtools ===
The package contains two binaries, fm and fmscan. To pick up all stations even with very weak reception, I issued,

$ fmscan -d /dev/radio2 fmscan -d /dev/radio3 -t 18 -i 0.1
Scanning range: 87.9 - 107.9 MHz (0.2 MHz increments)...

Nice and clean. I added an antenna, but still got weak reception. This is very useful for testing the radio and finding the stations; does it support directing the sound to a file? I try various combinations and end up with this to get 100% volume:

$ fm -d /dev/radio3 89.9 65535
Radio tuned to 89.88 MHz at 100.00% volume

Weird. I don't see a way to record; do I need to use sox? I don't know if I'm getting any sound, as I don't have speakers on this box.

Sox is what gnomeradio uses to record and it thankfully sends commands it uses to standard out.

for wav file:

sox -c2 -w -r32000 -tossdsp /dev/audio -r 44100 -c 2 -w -twav /tmp/foo.wav

for mp3 or ogg:

sox -c2 -w -r32000 -tossdsp /dev/audio -r 44100 -c 2 -w -twav /tmp/fm_fifo &

and

lame -S -h -b 128 /tmp/fm_fifo /tmp/foo.mp3

or

oggenc -Q -b 128 -o /tmp/foo.ogg /tmp/fm_fifo


=== gnomeradio ===
=== gnomeradio ===
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No recording capability, stable gui, minimal functionality -- tuner and volume. I had to hand-edit the .gradiorc configuration file to get station presets; I may have missed some way of doing this through the gui.
No recording capability, stable gui, minimal functionality -- tuner and volume. I had to hand-edit the .gradiorc configuration file to get station presets; I may have missed some way of doing this through the gui.


=== MPlayer ===
You can do a lot of things with MPlayer. As example, I use this syntax for radio listening:

mplayer -rawaudio rate=48000 radio://2/capture -radio adevice=hw=2:arate=48000:channels=93.8-Radio_Zones,94.7-SSR_1

This will start mplayer with sample rate = 48 kHz (choose the same than the one the sound card is using), listening to the second station onto the list, the tuner is the third sound card (ALSA device hw:2). For more examples: [http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/radio-input.html#radio-tips MPlayer radio tips].

You can add as many stations than wanted and use LIRC to control MPLayer.

I am running JACK all the time. I added
ao=jack,alsa
into ~.mplayer/config (for MPlayer) and mplayerplug-in.conf (for Firefox mplayerplug-in). For recording, I can use any JACK aware recording application.

I made a XDialog wrapper for radio listening using MPlayer and v4l2-cfg. I found it so good than I just made it public under the name [http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=5214989 XDRadio]. You will have to make a list of your stations during the installation (very easy to do). After, it is just to run it and enjoy the radio.

=== radio ===
The radio package has a single binary, radio. The man page says it looks for the kradio configuration file ~/.kde/share/config/kradiorc. Failing that, radio tries ~/.radio. I issue,

radio -c /dev/radio3

and get a blue and red curses screen, very cool. Arrow keys increase and decrease frequency in 0.05 intervals. I'm clearly not picking up any signal to speak of. I figure I have a lower-level issue with the tuner.
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Revision as of 19:45, 24 July 2015


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Radio Listening Software:

There are a number of Radio devices, in particular those TV tuner devices which also contain a radio receiver/tuner, for which V4L directly supports. The following list of software applications allow one to control a radio tuner.

Radio Applications

Gnomeradio and kradio, the most fully featured applications, are not yet available in all distributions and need to be compiled first. Some of the older applications are mature and readily available, but no longer actively developed.

Also See

User experiences

If you're a user, post your installation and user experiences here!

gnomeradio

Clearly a more sophisticated application. There's only a debian package for i386, so I'll need to build from the tarball. Since I'm mainly interested in remote recording, I'll try fmtools and radio first.

gradio

I tried gradio on Debian amd64, as it's available; it's very basic. If you don't have the card on /dev/radio, start with

gradio -d /dev/radio2

No recording capability, stable gui, minimal functionality -- tuner and volume. I had to hand-edit the .gradiorc configuration file to get station presets; I may have missed some way of doing this through the gui.