FM Radio Player 2009.11.15

Turn the N900 into a FM radio The headphones cable is the antenna. With this application you can tune into FM radio stations, just like in the old days before there was internet radio.
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user/multimedia
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133824 bytes
MD5sum:
7cc80133397970eca33e3a612d7c91b8
Status:
Old version cleaned by repository management
QA Quarantine ends:
ENDED 2009-11-25 21:52
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Venomrush . (Tester) (721)
2009-12-14 04:17 UTC
Teemu Lainiola (41)
2009-12-13 20:28 UTC
Anees Anwar (3)
2009-12-13 13:17 UTC
Jesus Pulido (187)
2009-12-10 09:46 UTC
Evgeniy Scherbakov (5)
2009-12-09 15:28 UTC
Marcus Wikström (620)
2009-12-08 12:55 UTC
Faheem Pervez (2151)
2009-11-23 17:48 UTC
Willie Pretorius (Tester) (352)
2009-11-20 11:42 UTC
Quim Gil (2662)
2009-11-19 06:24 UTC
Urho Konttori (886)
2009-11-17 21:29 UTC
Tomasz Dominikowski (Tester) (596)
2009-11-16 15:32 UTC
Andre Klapper (Tester) (891)
2009-11-16 14:10 UTC
Mustali Dalal (Tester) (996)
2009-11-15 23:26 UTC

Package events

Event typeUserTimestamp
Old version cleaned by repository managementSystem2010-03-26 11:37 UTC
Promotion has been cancelledMartin Grimme2009-12-14 16:34 UTC
Package is in testingSystem2009-11-15 21:52 UTC

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Teemu Lainiola
Karma: 41

It seems that the autoscan can be stopped by removing the headset. The scan then stops and you can shut the app.

2009-12-13 20:32 UTC
Jesus Pulido
Karma: 187

There's no way to stop the autoscan until it hits the end of the spectrum. Even though It previews clear stations it wont stop.

2009-12-10 09:50 UTC
Willie Pretorius
Karma: 352

It does not work for me at all, no audio. Tried several different headset, nokia & non nokia.

2009-11-20 11:44 UTC
Quim Gil
Karma: 2662

This one looks like a blocker:

FM Radio UI unresponsive while scanning https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6202

http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing/QA_Checklist#Missing_announced_features

It could be even considered that http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing/QA_Checklist#System_performance_compromised is related since the only way to close the app by scanning is to go for "End current task" pressing the power button.

2009-11-19 06:25 UTC

I didn't have any dependency troubles, however it doesn't seem like this version actually saves stations at all, anyone else care to test?

2009-11-18 09:16 UTC
Mustali Dalal
Karma: 996

@Martin, you are probably right. thanks.

2009-11-17 08:39 UTC
Martin Grimme
Karma: 1317

@Mustali: I just tried installing on a freshly flashed N900. The n900-fmrx-enabler dependency gets installed automatically without red-pill mode. It could be that you tried installing too early where the 1.3 version of n900-fmrx-enabler wasn't in extras-testing yet.

2009-11-16 21:11 UTC
Mustali Dalal
Karma: 996

@Andre the bug (6202) could be called a feature. It is marked as 'Major' but I would opt for 'Critical'.

The app (except the drop-down menu) is unresponsive when a scan is started. The seek button sometimes moves a couple of increments and sometimes takes-off until a clean frequency is found.

I was unable to stop the scan or terminate the app as it slowly scanned each frequency increment. My experience was not positive. there should be a way to override the scan because the scan does not stop at a frequency that is say, 90% clear. Unfortunately, based on where I was located there was a large swath of quiet frequencies so I had to wait a long time to get the app back.

n900-fmrx-enabler is a dependency (mentioned above).

The app is great otherwise, the UI is pretty and smooth.

2009-11-16 16:05 UTC

The sound quality with the headset is fixed, which was the biggest showstopper for me. However, now when you switch to speaker, the sound is very bad quality (just like before with the headset).

When someone sent me a text message while I was listening to the radio, the radio stopped playing. I had to hit pause and play to make it play again.

There are slight sound distortions when you move around the phone interface and tap icons.

Otherwise, good work. Much better than what is right now in Extras, this needs to be promoted quickly.

2009-11-16 15:20 UTC
Andre Klapper
Karma: 891

@Mustali: What is the fmrx package and how is it related?

What exactly in http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing#Quality_Assurance_criteria is your Thumbs-Down based on?

2009-11-16 14:10 UTC
Mustali Dalal
Karma: 996

needed to take the Red-pill for the fmrx package.

Seek is slow. once started it cannot be stopped. perhaps a finger-scroll could indicate a scan-override?

Also, the app is non-responsive until scanning stops (BZ 6202).

2009-11-15 23:28 UTC
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