PC FM Tuner Streamed Over a LAN?

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?"

Comments

USB radioshark + icecast + liveice

[zfalcon]

I just set this up the other day so I could listen to local sports broadcasts when out of town.

I bought a USB Radioshark, set it up under Linux, and used Icecast with Liveice to setup realtime streaming.

I then setup a cgi to change stations. Works like a charm.

Put a radio on top of your PC

[SIGFPE]

I assure you it sounds fine. Well, you might want to move it slightly away from your PC to avoid interference. If you want to listen in many rooms buy a radio for each one - they're pretty cheap. Or buy a portable radio that you can carry with you.