Looking for a radio tuner for my audio server.
Needs to do AM.
Any hardware reccomendations?
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Why not just pick up a cheap tuner on eBay and connect into the sever via the sound card input. That is what I did, I bought a Denon tuner for $20.00, used a cheap RCA to stereo headphone adapter to wire into the machine. The advantage is that you are going to get a very nice strong tuner which should do a much better job than any PC add in card...
john plemons
Jason Pyeron wrote:
Looking for a radio tuner for my audio server.
Needs to do AM.
Any hardware reccomendations?
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From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of John Plemons Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 11:21 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] AM/FM tuner for centos 4 or 5?
Why not just pick up a cheap tuner on eBay and connect into the sever via the sound card input. That is what I did, I bought a Denon tuner for $20.00, used a cheap RCA to stereo headphone adapter to wire into the machine. The advantage is that you are going to get a very nice strong tuner which should do a much better job than any PC add in card...
john plemons
need to change the station, programmatically.
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John Plemons wrote:
Why not just pick up a cheap tuner on eBay and connect into the sever via the sound card input. That is what I did, I bought a Denon tuner for $20.00, used a cheap RCA to stereo headphone adapter to wire into the machine. The advantage is that you are going to get a very nice strong tuner which should do a much better job than any PC add in card...
AND it keeps the RF section away form the computer and its massive amounts of gigahertz noise. take a portable AM radio, tune it to a medium strength station, and put it right next to your PC, I bet you get noise.
Jason Pyeron wrote:
Looking for a radio tuner for my audio server.
Needs to do AM.
Any hardware reccomendations?
I hooked up an original Griffin RadioShark to my CentOS 5.1 server for a lark last month, streaming with DarkIce. Unfortunately, that machine is dark and 2500 miles away - I won't be there for 2 more months. Off the top of my head, google for "shark.c", look for dependency RPMs on RPMforge (thanks Dag!!). I think I had to manually install a recent version of "libhid"
Griffin stopped selling the RS and now has RadioShark2. I found a version of shark.c for it named shark2.c, so I don't think the hardware is backwards compatible, but there is an update version of the control program. My notes are all on the dark machine, but IIRC this blog is was my jumping off point for what I figured out.
http://javier.rodriguez.org.mx/index.php/2006/06/10/griffin-radio-shark-icec...
Obviously, since it is for Debian, you'll have to deal with the distro impedance mismatch in the instructions and adjust for CentOS.
Also, since it is USB, you can get nice separation between receiver and the computer. The RadioShark has a lousy internal antenna but does have an antenna jack. I only played with the FM tuner. It does have an AM tuner but I have no idea how good it is.
Another built-in alternative is BT848-based tuner cards, but I think those are FM only - not sure. It has been 5+ years since I played with those and you might have to build a custom kernel. The RadioShark was a much better solution (if only the bad OS X drivers had not screwed up my Mac Mini so completely that I had to wipe and reinstall).
Hope this helps, K^2
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ken Key Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:00 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] AM/FM tuner for centos 4 or 5?
Jason Pyeron wrote:
Looking for a radio tuner for my audio server.
Needs to do AM.
Any hardware reccomendations?
I hooked up an original Griffin RadioShark to my CentOS 5.1 server for a lark last month, streaming with DarkIce. Unfortunately, that machine is dark and 2500 miles away - I won't be there for 2 more months. Off the top of my head, google for "shark.c", look for dependency RPMs on RPMforge (thanks Dag!!). I think I had to manually install a recent version of "libhid"
Ok.
Griffin stopped selling the RS and now has RadioShark2. I found a version of shark.c for it named shark2.c, so I don't think the hardware is backwards compatible, but there is an update version of the control program. My notes are all on the dark machine, but IIRC this blog is was my jumping off point for what I figured out.
http://javier.rodriguez.org.mx/index.php/2006/06/10/griffin-ra
dio-shark-icecast2-on-debian-gnulinux
Obviously, since it is for Debian, you'll have to deal with the distro impedance mismatch in the instructions and adjust for CentOS.
Not afraid of that.
Also, since it is USB, you can get nice separation between receiver and the computer. The RadioShark has a lousy internal antenna but does have an antenna jack. I only played with the FM tuner. It does have an AM tuner but I have no idea how good it is.
In summary, should I risk the cost of a radio shark2 or ebay a radio shark?
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why not do both and look at your options...
john plemons
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-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ken Key Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:00 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] AM/FM tuner for centos 4 or 5?
Jason Pyeron wrote:
Looking for a radio tuner for my audio server.
Needs to do AM.
Any hardware reccomendations?
I hooked up an original Griffin RadioShark to my CentOS 5.1 server for a lark last month, streaming with DarkIce. Unfortunately, that machine is dark and 2500 miles away - I won't be there for 2 more months. Off the top of my head, google for "shark.c", look for dependency RPMs on RPMforge (thanks Dag!!). I think I had to manually install a recent version of "libhid"
Ok.
Griffin stopped selling the RS and now has RadioShark2. I found a version of shark.c for it named shark2.c, so I don't think the hardware is backwards compatible, but there is an update version of the control program. My notes are all on the dark machine, but IIRC this blog is was my jumping off point for what I figured out.
http://javier.rodriguez.org.mx/index.php/2006/06/10/griffin-ra
dio-shark-icecast2-on-debian-gnulinux
Obviously, since it is for Debian, you'll have to deal with the distro impedance mismatch in the instructions and adjust for CentOS.
Not afraid of that.
Also, since it is USB, you can get nice separation between receiver and the computer. The RadioShark has a lousy internal antenna but does have an antenna jack. I only played with the FM tuner. It does have an AM tuner but I have no idea how good it is.
In summary, should I risk the cost of a radio shark2 or ebay a radio shark?
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Jason Pyeron wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ken Key Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:00 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] AM/FM tuner for centos 4 or 5?
Jason Pyeron wrote:
Looking for a radio tuner for my audio server.
Needs to do AM.
Any hardware reccomendations?
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In summary, should I risk the cost of a radio shark2 or ebay a radio shark?
Personally, I'd go the eBay route. Seem to be a bunch available for $10 versus $50 for the new RS2 from Griffin. The hardware is probably close to a single-chip design so what you're paying Griffin for are device drivers and application software that you're not even going to use. Additionally, as a niche hack without public documentation (at least I haven't found any), I find it's better to be on the trailing edge of hardware.
Beyond that, it's whether you want Commode White (RS) or Glossy Black (RS2) :-)
Regards, K^2
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