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SoftFM - Software decoder for FM broadcast radio with RTL-SDR
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SoftFM is a software-defined radio receiver for FM broadcast radio.
It is written in C++ and uses RTL-SDR to interface with RTL2832-based
hardware.
This program is mostly an experiment rather than a useful tool.
The purposes of SoftFM are
* experimenting with digital signal processing and software radio;
* investigating the stability of the 19 kHz pilot;
* doing the above while listening to my favorite radio station.
Having said that, SoftFM actually produces pretty good stereo sound
when receiving a strong radio station. Weak stations are noisy,
but SoftFM gets much better results than rtl_fm (bundled with RTL-SDR)
and the few GNURadio-based FM receivers I have seen.
SoftFM provides:
* mono or stereo decoding of FM broadcasting stations
* real-time playback to soundcard or dumping to file
* command-line interface (no GUI, no visualization, nothing fancy)
SoftFM requires:
* Linux
* C++11
* RTL-SDR library (http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr)
* supported DVB-T receiver
* medium-fast computer (SoftFM takes 25% CPU time on my 1.6 GHz Core i3)
* medium-strong FM radio signal
For the latest version, see https://github.com/jorisvr/SoftFM
Installing
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The Osmocom RTL-SDR library must be installed before you can build SoftFM.
See http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr for more information.
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SoftFM has been tested successfully with RTL-SDR 0.5.3.
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To install SoftFM, download and unpack the source code and go to the
top level directory. Then do like this:
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
# CMake tries to find librtlsdr. If this fails, you need to specify
# the location of the library in one the following ways:
#
# $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/rtlsdr
# $ cmake .. -DRTLSDR_INCLUDE_DIR=/path/rtlsdr/include -DRTLSDR_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/rtlsdr/lib/librtlsdr.a
# $ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/path/rtlsdr/lib/pkgconfig cmake ..
$ make
$ ./softfm -f <radio-frequency-in-Hz>
# ( enjoy music )
License
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SoftFM, copyright (C) 2013, Joris van Rantwijk
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
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