FM Radio in Rhythmbox

I've been working on some FM radio support in Rhythmbox in my spare time. Below is screenshot

At the moment, the basic tuning and mute/unmute works fine with my DSB-R100. I don't have any UI for adding/removing stations at the moment though, so it is necessary to edit ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml to add them.

Comments:

Joel -

This feature would truly be a welcome addition!

I'm especially pleased it's being developed by a fellow Australian! (If the radio stations are any indication)

Adam -

RDS (Radio Data System) support would be great, since no other linux radio program support it yet.

James Henstridge -

Adam: two things that make that a bit difficult: (1) my tuner device doesn't have RDS capabilities, and (2) hardly any stations transmit RDS data here anyway.

This isn't to say that someone else could do the work.

Adam -

I personaly have an RDS tuner card (and here /Hungary/ there are a lots of radio stations that sends RDS signals), so i would really like to help (without the coding part). The only thing i know, is that the linux kernel does support RDS in some way.

Jonathan Carter -

A station called RTRFM? What does the middle "R" stand for? ;)

Ryan -

Would this theoretically be able to run on the N800, which contains an FM tuner (now accessible only through a home page applet)?

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This looks awesome. If only I had a card that played FM audio...

Joes wrote: > I'm especially pleased it's being developed by a fellow Australian! (If the radio stations are any indication)

I wouldn't say it's too far out of the ordinary, as the two most active contributors (moch and myself) are also both Australian.

Onkar -

Will this be available as plugin so that user's who don't want to install newer version of Rhythmbox can use it. I am currently on Feisty and I may go out and buy FM tuner soon if this will work on existing Rhythmbox version.

Nate -

Oh, that is excellent. Rhythmbox really needs this.And let's hope it also helps to kill off the longstanding misnomer "radio" that RB uses to refer to streaming audio. That misappropriation *really* needs to go. Especially with HD Radio right around the corner; yet another audio source that actually uses radio waves.

mariuss -

I was waiting for something like this!

Any plans to add support for RadioShark (2)?

Is the code available somewhere?

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Rhythmbox bug for the reference

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168735