Anyone using an FM tuner card in XL

by **scottw** on Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:38 pm

I was thinking of adding FM radio to my setup and was wondering if anyone is using an FM tuner card and if so can you control it with XL???

Thanks,
Scott

by **Colby** on Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:05 pm

A long time ago I did. I used winamp tv plugin. I made a category of stations, with the tvc files. Edited the database and added frequencies, call letters, station names and genres. Thats how I did it.

by **P3rv3rt B3ar** on Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:28 pm

I still am, and im using same kind solution than my girl above. U can find more info about my solution over this thread: http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4303

by **PhilB** on Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:34 pm

I use an external FM tuner that is RS-232 controllable to get local radio. Otherwise I use shoutcast and XM to get away from the commericals.

The tuner is part of a my multi-zone amp so it is probably not a good choice for just radio but the internet streaming stations work fine.

PB

by **scottw** on Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:53 pm

Awesome thanks.

I think I will go with the Winamp TV solution and find a cheapo card on ebay.

Thanks alot!!!

by **scalt** on Fri Dec 01, 2006 11:51 pm

I'm using FM Radio with Xlobby...using the WinAmp TV plug-in.

The plug-in allows you to scan for stations and then creates files for each station. I created a XL database for these files as "tracks" so I could display them as a category in XL and make them play automatically through WinAmp

Works great and since the stations are in a database, I added some internet radio stations too.

If you have any questions, don'T hesitate

by **scottw** on Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:39 pm

Anyone have a semi-cheap card they can recommend???