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PC FM Tuner Streamed Over a LAN?

Posted by Cliff on from the better-quality-sounds dept.

ooglek asks: "FM radio seems to be falling out of favor, with many stations putting their streams online. Unfortunately, many choose bad codecs and low bandwidth feeds, which make them practically unappealing. There seem to be a fair number of PCI-based TV Tuner cards that come with a built in FM receiver, and I'm interested in what it might take to stream my local FM stations to the Windows, Unix and Mac boxes in my house over my LAN, as well as my TiVo and Slim Devices SqueezeBox. Is this merely a pipe-dream?"

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  1. I Don't Get It by Criliric · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Doesn't anybody else have a receviver these days?
    instead of stereo into the computer I happen to have it the other way around, and if I really wanted to listen the local rock station all I have to do I press a button.
    I might be missing something but what is the point of having your computer play your radio, unless you plan on recording the banter of the DJs....

    1. Re:I Don't Get It by Triumph+The+Insult+C · · Score: 3, Interesting

      i listen to howard stern daily. a radio won't work in my office, but i could easily stream from home and tune in with xmms over the net

      --
      vodka, straight up, thank you!
  2. Wouldn't be much better by JacquesPinette84 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The thing is, the radio station has a clean signal to work with. Compression algorithms will work relitively well with that, but if you use the audio that comes from F.M. it will introduce alot of noise. This won't work as well as with the clean signal and in the end you'll probably have use more bandwidth just to broadcast the same audio at about the same quality.

  3. Kinda OT: I remember doing this many moons ago by szyzyg · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd got snapped up from my astronomy position in the UK to come and contract for a couple of months in the US, I'd been developing software like mp3serv/liveice/icecast. But, I didn't want to leave behind UK radio - like the Essential Mix, John Peel or The Breezeblock - the BBC website offered low quality real audio. I left my radio plugged into my computer at the observatory and streamed all the UK radio across the atlantic to my office in the US....

    Sadly... I don't have an office in the UK any more so I guess my best bet now is Sirius radio.

  4. New Ask Slashdot Requirement by dave1g · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is actually an interesting question and so were some others in the past.

    I think the submitters should be force into developing a simple webpage that details what they did based on the knowledge slashdot gave them.

    Heck, they could put it on ehow.com they have a wiki how to website http://wiki.ehow.com/Main-Page