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
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QA Quarantine ends:
ENDED 2009-11-25 23:52
| Tester | Karma | Timestamp |
| Venomrush . (Tester) (720) | 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 (159) | 2009-12-10 09:46 UTC | |
| Evgeniy Scherbakov (5) | 2009-12-09 15:28 UTC | |
| Marcus Wikström (613) | 2009-12-08 12:55 UTC | |
| Faheem Pervez (2146) | 2009-11-23 17:48 UTC | |
| Willie Pretorius (Tester) (309) | 2009-11-20 11:42 UTC | |
| Quim Gil (2550) | 2009-11-19 06:24 UTC | |
| Urho Konttori (873) | 2009-11-17 21:29 UTC | |
| Tomasz Dominikowski (Tester) (596) | 2009-11-16 15:32 UTC | |
| Andre Klapper (Tester) (1221) | 2009-11-16 14:10 UTC | |
| Mustali Dalal (Tester) (995) | 2009-11-15 23:26 UTC |
Package events
| Event type | User | Timestamp |
| Old version cleaned by repository management | System | 2010-03-26 11:37 UTC |
| Promotion has been cancelled | Martin Grimme | 2009-12-14 16:34 UTC |
| Package is in testing | System | 2009-11-15 21:52 UTC |

Comments:
It seems that the autoscan can be stopped by removing the headset. The scan then stops and you can shut the app.
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.
It does not work for me at all, no audio. Tried several different headset, nokia & non nokia.
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.
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?
@Martin, you are probably right. thanks.
@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.
@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.
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.
@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?
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).
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