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Many TvTunerCards have a radio tuner built in.
!Tuning/Listening to the radio
You can use the "radio" application to tune and listen to radio stations. This is part of the xawtv package, but in [Debian] at least it is split into its own binary package:
+<verbatim>
apt-get install radio
+</verbatim>
Here is a sample __~/.radio__ configuration file for it (based on Hamilton frequencies):
- # frequencies have 6 decimal places of precision?!
- [
[Stations]
- # 91.4
- 91400000=Concert Radio
- # 101.0 or so
- 101000000
=National
Radio
- [[Buttons]
- 1
=91400000
- 2
=101000000
+----
+<verbatim>
+[Stations]
+88950000=The Generator
+89750000=ZMFM
+91400000=Concert Radio
+91950000=scan-3
+93000000=The Rock
+93800000=Solid Gold
+94540000=Life FM
+96000000
=Radio Hauraki
+96950000=scan-9
+97790000
=scan-10
+98590000=scan-12
+99250000=scan-13
+99950000=scan-14
+100950000=National Radio
+103340000
=scan-16
+[Buttons]
+1=88950000
+2=89750000
+3=91400000
+5=93000000
+6=93800000
+7=96000000
+8=100950000
+</verbatim>
+----
Gnome Radio is a nice gui for [GTK2] that can store frequencies and record streams onto disk as Wav, [MP3] or OggVorbis.%%%
RedHat users with Dags repo set up on Apt or yum can install `gnomeradio`
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Step 2 - run the "radio" command or whatever program you use to get output to the sound card.
Step 3 - run the following commands (or put them in a script and run that). Press Ctrl-C to finish.
----
+<verbatim>
#!/bin/sh
# -c 1 for mono
@@ -50,14 +72,27 @@
#If you prefer mp3, you could install "gogo" and use
#encodecmd="gogo stdin out.mp3"
sox -t ossdsp /dev/dsp -t wav -c 1 $rate $datatype - | $encodecmd
+</verbatim>
----
Note that these commands aren't really radio-specific - they could be
used for recording anything, although the settings here are ok for radio-quality audio. Also, if you use [ALSA] then you will need to have [OSS]-emulation drivers loaded.
----
!!! Troubleshooting
+!!UDev
+[UDev] by default (at least in Debian and Ubuntu) doesn't create a symlink for /dev/radio (to /dev/radio0), but the 'radio' program tries to use /dev/radio.
+
+To tell udev to create a symlink, create a file called 00_video4linux.rules
+in the /etc/udev/rules.d directory, with the following content:
+<verbatim>
+# make a symlink to the first radio device
+KERNEL="radio0", SYMLINK="radio"
+</verbatim>
+
+
+!!Misc
The driver for the radio tuner on the saa7134 tv tuner card seemed to have been broken for LinuxKernel 2.6.8, but works again in 2.6.9.
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