> DAB+ is available here, and sooner or later there will be compatible tuners > available with Linux support, [snip] > To make DAB+ properly accessible, it would be necessary to decode the textual > information that radio stations can include along with the audio. [snip] > A textual Linux player should be possible in principle. My man!!! After the proverbial "they" ran roughshod over the masses on this side of the pond and successfully pushed iBiquity's HD Radio over the airwaves to us in the states, I started to dabble in it. While I had quite a bit fun, I produced only a very rudimentary GUI that displayed just some of the myriad of textual FM data that it can produce. But it was oh so very basic because I'm a kernel kind of guy that simply had a thought that playing with a GUI up in user space just might be fun for a change. Of course that only happened after a handful of chips were created that could receive such a signal; and as far as I can tell these are probably the last batch of silicon we may see. It's not gone over that well here. But early on a single person in a specific spot on globe pushed a driver into the kernel after he got his hands on the chip specifications; and did a pretty damn good job I gotta say. So, if and when you find that DAB+ chip specs appear, it's my hope that you will do better than both he or I and create a roughly polished driver and or application that all you folks that are within the range of a DAB+ signal can enjoy. This is exactly the kind of special itch that starts most open source projects don't ya know. Here's to seeing something on Sourceforge, github, or the staging tree on kernel.org in the future. And if such a time does arrive and you desire some help in kernel space, just save my address. Side bar note: > but besides mobile use cases, there isn't a great need for it under my circumstances. Possibly not, but keep an eye out for it. Even though HD Radio has been mostly a dud over here, I've got a 19 inch rack mounted HD Radio that spews it's output into what I gotta say is at least approaching a somewhat high end audio system. What's amazing is not so much the fidelity, but any silence that might be found in the signal. It's totally "black". Nothing like like anything normally ever seen on a FM signal. Or am I reading what what you wrote wrong??? peace, bob
