Power Radio

The built-im FM player – at least on HTC HD – misses many features i’d like to have in a FM radio. PowerRadio delivers many data available via RDS which would otherwise be invisible to the listener. Here are just a few examples:
- Radiotext: contains information broadcast by the respective station. What you get here totally depens on the broadcaster. You might see title and interpret, call-in numbers, SMS trafficservice numbers, URL’s etc.
- traffic announcements
- program type
- coverage area
- date, time, timezone
- various status flags

Making of:
PowerRadio is built on top of flywhc’s GFMAPI, which currently supports Diamond, Raphael, Blackstone, Polaris, X1, Rhodium, Topaz.
Screen resolution is designed to work with VGA and WVGA devices only.
FM bandswitching is partially hardcoded for CCIR band (i might rework that in the future).

Credits:
Full credits to flywhc for his GFMAPI, which brings full RDS power to the developer.

Usage:
After setup when started for the first time, PowerRadio will scan the whole band for stations, storing them to the available preset buttons.
manual scan: long-press “scan” button to get context menu with various options
preset buttons: long-press a button to get context menu with options for store, delete, rename
ear/spk: switch between earphones and speaker
mute/unmute: self explanatory
blend: improves stereo reception and/or expands stereo base
stereo: switch between mono/stereo

All settings are saved in PowerRadio.ini.

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