Ive been using a radioshark for offline recording. http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/radioshark/
Software support in linux was tricky to get started. I needed to compile the small application used for setting frequencies, which needed a very new version of libhid from subversion. A quick google suggests this hasnt improved. Once set up it has been largely problem-free. It provides an ordinary ALSA input device which I have been using to record scheduled broadcasts using arecord, scheduled by cron. All very tidy. The only inconvenience is that the reception quality does seem to be quite sensitive to position. A couple of times it has been accidentally pushed against the wall at the back of the desk, and the reception really suffers. But maybe any other FM radio in the same position would have the same problem. I am sampling at 48kHz and encoding as mp3, and audio quality is as good as I expect. Stereo FM broadcasts are band limited to 15kHz, and this ALSA input shows significant noise above that frequency. I noticed a worthwhile improvement in file size by configuring lame's lowpass filter at 15kHz. I hope that helps. -- htrd ------------------------------------------------------------------------ htrd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3710 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35059 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
