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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Finally, FM Radio supportRe: Finally, FM Radio support
From: Linus Nielsen Feltzing <linus_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 11:30:06 +0200 Mike Holden wrote: > Linus Nielsen Feltzing said: > >>Hi all! >> >>I just committed my first attempt at an FM radio screen on the FM >>recorder. It is just a proof of concept with no bells and whistles, and >>no localization. >> >>You can select "FM Radio" from the main menu. >> >>Keys: >> >>LEFT, RIGHT: Change frequency in 0.1 MHz steps >>UP, DOWN: Change volume >>OFF: Back to main menu >> >>For automatic station seek, hold LEFT/RIGHT for a little longer. >> >>Try it out, and give me comments. > > > Looking great so far! > > Q1: How do I turn it off again?!! Pressing STOP takes you out of the radio > screen, but the radio keeps playing. If I play an MP3, the radio is still > playing, and the MP3 never appears, although the WPS comes up! Oops. Forgot to fix that. Leaving the radio on is intentional, but it should turn off when playing an MP3. > Q2: I have heard it expressed about the Archos radio that the frequency > tuning is not fine enough. I see you tune up/down by 100000 (0.1Mhz), but > is this your choice, or a hardware issue? I can tune it much finer than that. What resolution would be acceptable? It should'nt be tedious to tune by hand. > 1. saving and naming and re-ordering favourite stations. At least 10 > favourites, but maybe as many as 30, or even unlimited. This would need to > be stored to a file rather than in ROM. When tuning manually, display the > saved details if they match the current frequency. Of course. > 2. auto-scan feature - search for the 10 strongest signals and store them > in a temporary "playlist" - handy for people on the move, and often seen > on car systems. This is a little complicated, since I can't really measure the signal strength in a good fashion. But sure, we can give it a try. > 3. rds/eon data. I know we have this in the UK, but no idea about other > locations. The radio station transmits extra data embedded in the signal > which carries station name (so you can display it automatically), a flag > when traffic info is being transmitted so you can switch from MP3 to local > traffic info, and I think even current track info (artist/track name). No can do. The RDS chip is not mounted on the FM recorder. There is a socket for this, but it is empty. Even if we had it mounted, it would put a huge strain on the CPU. I guess that's why they never shipped it with RDS. > 4. Auto-resume - remember the last frequency played, and resume at that > frequency when returning to the radio. This could be stored in ROM or on > disk. Ah, of course. Linus Received on 2003-05-03 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |