My guess is quality is important and not all internet radio streams are
FM quality - for example BBC Radio 3 is only a 40kbits RealAudio
stream whereas with a real Tuner you get full FM quality through a
sound card without lossy compression.
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Can't you get the stations you want with Internet radio?
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If your netBSD has a sound card and you are feeding the FM through a
"line input" - then if Alsa or OSS is supported on the sound card, the
you should be able to use something like arecord to get a WAV stream
which in turn can be converted into Flac. This would require a small
plugin similar to
Not possible for NetBSD, just recently possible for Windows with some
soundcards:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=205598
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Apologies if I've missed something, did a quick search...
Is the following possible?
Analogue line in to PC running SlimServer
Real-time FLAC encoding (optional but desirable)
Stream over network
Play on Squeezebox/Transporter.
Basically I want to be able to use the Zone 2 output on my main hi-
