hmburgers
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We have a local low power FM radio station near my home that plays really old music, I listen to it almost exclusively at this point. I can get it at home and for most of my commute, but it's impossible to receive while I'm at work, I'm just too far away at that point.
I've been hoping to come up with a solution that would let me receive the audio at home and stream it via the internet.
I've tried rtl_fm_streamer, it works OK within my house (using VLC on PC or phone to stream it), but it starts dropping audio like crazy while trying to stream via VPN to my work PC or phone--It's unclear why this is an issue, I assume it's some sort of a latency thing w/ rtl_fm_streamer because I'm able to stream much more data-heavy content from a different home server via VPN and using VLC while I'm remote.
Ideally I'd also like to start creating an archive of the station--essentially just breaking up the broadcast day into 24 one-hour MP3 (or whatever) files, where the file name is the date/time started.
BTW, I don't need to use the RTL-SDR for this, it was simply convenient and appeared to be what I was looking for. I'm fine with this being a small radio connected to the line input of a computer and completely eliminating the SDR.
From my reading it seems like ffmpeg may be my answer to both goals, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to start this and was hoping someone here might have some ideas or pointers.
Thanks!
I've been hoping to come up with a solution that would let me receive the audio at home and stream it via the internet.
I've tried rtl_fm_streamer, it works OK within my house (using VLC on PC or phone to stream it), but it starts dropping audio like crazy while trying to stream via VPN to my work PC or phone--It's unclear why this is an issue, I assume it's some sort of a latency thing w/ rtl_fm_streamer because I'm able to stream much more data-heavy content from a different home server via VPN and using VLC while I'm remote.
Ideally I'd also like to start creating an archive of the station--essentially just breaking up the broadcast day into 24 one-hour MP3 (or whatever) files, where the file name is the date/time started.
BTW, I don't need to use the RTL-SDR for this, it was simply convenient and appeared to be what I was looking for. I'm fine with this being a small radio connected to the line input of a computer and completely eliminating the SDR.
From my reading it seems like ffmpeg may be my answer to both goals, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to start this and was hoping someone here might have some ideas or pointers.
Thanks!
