I had one of these once, and I think that I used the utility 'fm' to
tune it.  It's been many years...

I do remember that it worked well.

Andrew Zbikowski wrote:
> I've been seaching without much success for a program that will tune
> my USB radio tuner (D-Link DSP R100
> http://support.dlink.com/products/view.asp?productid=DSB%2DR100) from
> the command line.
> 
> If anyone knows of such a best, please let me know. :)
> 
> Since I just can't get a decent radio signal at work, my thought is I
> can do somehting TiVoish with this device. Just cook up a cron job to
> tune the radio to the right frequency, then mp3 or ogg encode from the
> Line-In Audio jack, then I can drop the result on to my MuVo, or my
> Treo 600, or just listen on the coputer. (The USB connection is only
> used to tune the radio, the audio comes into the PC's soundcard via
> the line-in or microphone.)
> 
> The questions I have are...it's not immediatly obvious to me how to
> use lame or oggenc to encode directly from the line in...if it's even
> possible? Does the entire thing need to be dropped into wav first?
> 
> Also, anyone have any thoughts as what a good bitrate for FM radio
> encoding would be? Mostly I'm going for talk shows, so quality isn't a
> huge issue.
> 
> Thanks. 
> 

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