There is no market for playing FM on PCs/Laptops. Chip makers and products vendors stopped making new products about 5 years ago. New products only address digital radio such as internet, DAB and DVB but even now it is hard to find USB DAB products.
The only users who now "need" an FM USB solution are the DIY Car Radio/audio builders. When I started the plugin - I ended up buying 4 FM radio solutions - 2 TV/FM Tuner cards for PC, Sharkradio and a ADS InstantFM USB. I needed a solution for Windows and Linux and only SharkRadio delivered a reliable system. TV Tuner cards (e.g. Hauppauge) were OK on Linux but couldn't make a general purpose plugin for Windows as reliablility & functionality varied by card and Windows version. Most of USB FM tuner solution are based on Silabs chips but at the time I wasn't able to build a reliable support application and so I put all my effort into a RadioShark based solution. There was an active group developing for Silabs (see http://code.google.com/p/silabsradiodll/ ) but mainly Windows based and but activity stopped around 2008. If you mainly listen to one FM station - I suggest buying an FM radio and connect into the "line-in" port of the PC (or iMic for better quality) and use the WaveInput plugin. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54926 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
