Sunday, February 28, 2010

Power Radio 2.3.2.0 - FM player with RDS decoding



Why PowerRadio?
The built-im FM player - at least on HTC HD - misses many features i'd like to have in a FM radio. PowerRadio delivers many data available via RDS which would otherwise be invisible to the listener. Here are just a few examples:
- Radiotext: contains information broadcast by the respective station. What you get here totally depens on the broadcaster. You might see title and interpret, call-in numbers, SMS trafficservice numbers, URL's etc.
- traffic announcements, program type, coverage area, date, time, timezone, various status flags
More info on RDS can be found in this post.




You like Power Radio?
I've spent many hours in writing this app. If you like it, why not buy me a coffee to keep me awake during the nightly coding sessions?

Supported Devices
Power Radio runs on many, but NOT ALL devices
check here to see if you're lucky!


Station Icons
includes instructions how to make your own cabs!
Skins
get shiny, colorful, cool skins for Power Radio

FAQ
cant receive RDS data
run APITest, details here
cant see icons on my preset buttons
edit the name of your preset station to match the name of an icon (without the ending .png)
Power Radio crashes - throws exception on exit
try setting an alternate exit option: menu-extras-set exit option: 1
exitoption 0 is the default behaviour which seems to work on most devices. After the screen is gone, the app is really terminated.
exitoption 1 handles exit differently. On exit, the Power Radio window closes immediately but the app continues running in background for about 10 secs (maybe longer). If you start PowerRadio or HTC radio during this time, you'll get all kinds of errors. You may view the background process with Fdcsoft taskmanager or SKtools, or simply wait long enough.

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