htrd;200326 Wrote: > Ive been using a radioshark for offline recording. > ... > 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. > ... > 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.
That helps a lot, thank you! The low pass filter sounds especially smart. I've ordered a new RadioShark off eBay (Amazon had a good deal last week, but the price has more than doubled in the last week) and am looking forward to giving it a try. -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35059 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
