Uniden wav files player and organizer

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Jay911

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That is something that should have been made available by Uniden right from the start. If I have a commonly used frequency (i.e. one that is in use in many places across my reception area) it would be hugely helpful to know where I was when I made a recording!

Great news, thanks again for this software.
 

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Hi guys!
New release of my Uniden Wav Player ver 1.0.0.21.
changes from previous version:
  • Added partial support of uniden home patrol scanners( thanks to Jay911)
  • Added right click menu.
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play file (play current file)
show on map (show on map current wav file recorded location)
copy file path to clipboard (copy to clipboard full file path with file name and extension)
set frequency as filter (set current wav file frequency as filter)
set favorite as filter (set current wav file favorite as filter)
set system as filter (set current wav file system as filter)
  • Added the ability to view the geolocation of a recorded file on a satellite map (if you use GPS module with your scanner)
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  • Added site column
  • Added date filter
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  • Fix some bugs (long UID names, incomplete RAN, incomlete color code) thanks to Ubbe, Jay911
  • Increased performance by working in multiple threads

link to download UnidenWavPlayer.exe

If you find bugs, please let me know.
 

Jay911

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Thanks as always, and I have some suggestions and observations:

Observation: The GPS location provided is of the site/department - not the location of the scanner when it received the signal. It would be great if Uniden stored the latter, but apparently they don't. Still, it's very good to see all the data in the recording get displayed and used.

Suggestion: In the "TGID" and "UID" columns, does anyone see a benefit to keeping the "TGID:" and "UID:" prefixes? In other words, deim, can you consider removing those (i.e. instead of the field showing "TGID:64072" it just shows "64072")?

Observation: Seeing which site a (trunked) transmission occurred on is beautiful. I don't get to see that on the x36's screen(s), and it helps a lot in determining the use/purpose/location of a channel.

Suggestion: Would it be possible to have the program remember the folder/directory that was picked the last time the program was run, or maybe have the program default to the directory it's started in?
 

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Thanks as always, and I have some suggestions and observations:

Observation: The GPS location provided is of the site/department - not the location of the scanner when it received the signal. It would be great if Uniden stored the latter, but apparently they don't. Still, it's very good to see all the data in the recording get displayed and used.

Suggestion: In the "TGID" and "UID" columns, does anyone see a benefit to keeping the "TGID:" and "UID:" prefixes? In other words, deim, can you consider removing those (i.e. instead of the field showing "TGID:64072" it just shows "64072")?

Observation: Seeing which site a (trunked) transmission occurred on is beautiful. I don't get to see that on the x36's screen(s), and it helps a lot in determining the use/purpose/location of a channel.

Suggestion: Would it be possible to have the program remember the folder/directory that was picked the last time the program was run, or maybe have the program default to the directory it's started in?
About GPS.
in wav file stored 2 different gps positions
in wav file 2019-09-05_12-22-01.wav ( your file):
1. *4.500000;-**5.000000 in departmnet block
2. *1.049920;-**3.805082 in site block
both position is set by user to the favorite list?
I thought this was the current position of the scanner.
About TGID, UID.
it's possible to save current settings(path, hiden columns) and remove UID, TGID prefixes.
Planed to next release.
 

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The Uniden BCT15 stores the actual GPS position of a CC hit but I do not have a GPS for my other Uniden scanners so cannot test if positions are stored in the wav header. It never stores a GPS position from the GPS antenna while doing normal monitoring, only possible during CloseCall as other modes have no clue of where the transmitter are positioned and a GPS position of the scanner have little value.

The site names also show up if you use Siren or Unidens RH536 remote control program for Windows.

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deim, could you please have a look at the format when using "search with scan". It shows net and site and TG info but not the frequency.
Frequency seems to be stored at position hex 357 (dec 855) and at hex 368 (dec 872)
Example in 2019-10-03_13-44-28.wav 2019-10-03_13-51-30.wav

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deim, could you please have a look at the format when using "search with scan". It shows net and site and TG info but not the frequency.
Frequency seems to be stored at position hex 357 (dec 855) and at hex 368 (dec 872)
Example in 2019-10-03_13-44-28.wav 2019-10-03_13-51-30.wav

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Hi!

Which type of scanner generate this files? 536hp?
Very interesting case. 422.7687 in custom7 may record with frequency info in expected area(2019-10-03_13-51-34.wav) and sometimes without freq info in the same position.
Is this situation repeated often? Or maybe with other frequency?
 

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It's a 536. The scanner are probably struggling and are bogged down, making it jump over some processes. The keypad are hardly reacting to keypresses. The firmware are far from bug free. The display sometimes show info from prior or the following recording when played from the scanners menu.

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It's a 536. The scanner are probably struggling and are bogged down, making it jump over some processes. The keypad are hardly reacting to keypresses. The firmware are far from bug free. The display sometimes show info from prior or the following recording when played from the scanners menu.

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That's a known issue when there are a large number of recordings on the card. Clear the recordings off the card and the problem will go away, until you let recordings accumulate again.
 

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It was 4 nights of recordings, maybe 20 folders with 100 recordings in each. When the signal is weak and decode isn't perfect, the scanner is really putting the CPU into overload. I clear all recordings from the SD card once a week or something but it doesn't help.

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I never used this til 20 mints ago. Looks good I was looking through the old x36 files and vs sds200 files. I noticed on the x36hp side the TG UID are not showing up just blank. Also all the text on system channel is all align to the right not left. I took a screen shot

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I had my BCD536 on recording and normal scan and it saved a file from an analog 400MHz channel and then it went into search+scan and hit a 166MHz DMR channel and saved 4 of those conversation files. When playing the 166Mhz files in the scanner it displayes garbage and light up almost all icons but the audio sounds good.

When examine the files it has saved part of the information from the previous 400Mhz channel in the header and the actual 166Mhz frequency information are nowhere in the files. It made 4 recordings with the exact same problem.

It's not a SD card problem as the file are already trashed in the scanners work memory and saves it to 4 different files that can be copied to other places and have no integrity problems. When played in the wavplayer program it shows the erronious 400Mhz frequency.

It is when decoding DMR while in the mode search+scan that keypad response and trashed recording files happens which indicate that the scanners CPU can't keep up with the process. There's probably too much info loaded into memory using that mode. It could be related to that I have something like 20-30 frequencies in temporary avoid that eats up memory.

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