FM Radio 1.4.6...
 

Anyone notice the cool new feature in FM Radio 1.4.6? It needs a little refinement still, but it makes radio-use a LOT easier.

Tim

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Just noticed it. Download radio station presets from the internet for your area are in a nice big list?
Hmm...I didn't know you could switch from headphones back to the internal speakers. Makes it a lot more useful if you feel like listening to OTA broadcast radio instead of internet radio.
Time to run down to radio shack and build a little 90-degree headjack plug antenna.
Hate dangling wires...

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Post your results, method, and materials used please. Dangling wires on a wireless device doesn't sit well with me either. :)

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Not going to happen until tomorrow though. Luckily Radio Shack is right down the street from me.

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I grabbed this yesterday. My thanks to those responsible for this app. The local listings are great, and listening through the speakers is a much-needed feature.

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The local listings thing would be great if I didn't live in the middle of nowhere where I can't pick up any of the major cities stations. I know they can't possibly list every town in the world, but it's still a bummer nonetheless. Although, it will still be useful when I'm on the road in an unfamiliar city.

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This is a really great addition to the app, although I'd still like to see the FM functionality integrated into the media player... :)

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This would be really great integrated with GeoClue, or at least Plazer, and then put the radio listings in "roaming" mode.

Automatically pickup presets for where you happen to be at.

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Very cool idea! If you don't submit that as a feature request, I certainly will. :)

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I can't even get the ones that are local for me, am I doing something wrong?

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Youtube has a small demo of the new feature.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYTfUddMAH4

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Great video, great improvements - can't wait to try this once I get home.
Big kudos to the guy working on this!

(anyone seen the "Proto..." print on the right border of the depicted IT? I wonder if that hardware is better or worse than ours :-)

Re: FM Radio 1.4.6...
 

manage to make an antenna fomy n800.
had old headphones sitting around, hooked it up to a extra wireless router antenna.
worked nicely.

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Sorry to break this to everyone, but the headphones/speaker feature has been integrated into the FM Radio for months now... The button on the UI is new, but the feature was always available in the settings.

The only new feature (which is big enough IMO) is the local stations list.

-T.

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YES! The small icon to dwitch between HP and Speaker right in the applet instead of the full app really makes me happy!!! Thanks also to the guy who did this inside Nokia.
unique, which pins of the HP jack did you use for the extra antenna? is the signal taken from the L or R or both pins? the other pole would go to GROUND, I assume, or shell I connect BETWEEN L and R?
BTW: has anyonoe found those 4-pin-plugs as an extra part so we can connect a separate MIC and HP to the N800?

thanks, karl.

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I do like this feature but I seem to not be able to pick up more than very garbled stuff on a couple stations, where things like car radios work fine. Even with the headphones plugged in, doesn't seem to help.

:(

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OK Now I just feel like an idiot, but where did you find the new radio app? I've been all over garage.maemo.org looking for it!

Thanks!!!

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It should be listed in your Application Manager as fmradio in the Multimedia section.

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If you aren't getting many stations, it is probably because you aren't plugging in headphones. The wire of the headphones is used for an antenna.

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Wonder who maintains the list? I can get downloads for other cities, but when I choose Singapore/Singapore, nothing happens. Hope someone in Nokia can rectify this.

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Hi, the radio list for Europe, Belgium is a nice and very usefull list ! I like this feature !

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Like mtech it'd be useful to know where/how the Station Directory Service is maintained. It appears to be the same as that used to update the station list on Nokia phones with Visual Radio (now there's a scam to burn up a user's data plan) - I just tried out the FM radio on my N70 last week after having the phone for a year & it received the same list.

The list and frequencies for the broadcasters in my area is incomplete so it'd be good to update it.

Anyone offer help on this?

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No list for Hawai'i? Pfff

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Does anyone know who generates the list of stations for the presets? I couldn't believe this feature, awesome. There should be someone to email to fix errors in that list. Maybe an open source database users could update on the fly..
Darren