DAB USB for Windows PC

DUTR

coffeehound wrote: »

Perhaps then a dedicated internet radio would suit you better, e.g.

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8522250

Good find, I have been using a Roberts Stream 93i for years fantastic product, if that Bush can also play podcasts then I'm getting one :cool:

almillar

I find internet radio streams are poor quality, I looked into this sort of thing a while ago and came up with nothing.
It's too niche a product

You wanna check the bitrate on MP3 quality DAB?!!

Lakeuk

These type of receivers are intended as a TV digital receiver but due to them having a decoder chip have supports a wider frequency range than the TV mux band they are promoted for supporting other areas like DAB as a cheap version of the genuine version.

I got one for capture aircraft positioning in the sky and I've found them great for this. I've tried it for DAB and it's rubbish, the signal quality pickup is back and I'm in an area with 100% signal quality on my standalone dab radio. I'd would recommend sticking with a dab radio or streaming site/app like Radioplayer, alot of radio stations these day stream better quality than DAB.

Chino

Lakeuk wrote: »

I got one for capture aircraft positioning in the sky and I've found them great for this. I've tried it for DAB and it's rubbish, the signal quality pickup is back and I'm in an area with 100% signal quality on my standalone dab radio.

Your confusingly-written post (what is "capture aircraft positioning in the sky"?) would be more useful if you identified which USB DAB receiver it was you purchased that had "rubbish" DAB reception so others can think twice before purchasing it. Just because you had a poor experience with one such device doesn't necessarily mean that they're all as bad.

VWPolecat

The RTL dongle with the correct software can be used as a receiver for just about anything.
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/about-rtl-sdr/

DoaM

DUTR wrote: »

Good find, I have been using a Roberts Stream 93i for years fantastic product, if that Bush can also play podcasts then I'm getting one :cool:

If the podcast is on your phone then it'll play it. (Per the description, as it'll play media files from your phone). Whether it'll play Internet streamed podcasts ... don't know.

PixelPound

You can get USB TV sticks that include radio stations broadcast over freeview (DTT)

I concur that if going for DAB because of quality, then that's misguided. When DAB came out it was supposed to be high quality, but because broadcasters wanted to squeeze as much on as they could, bit rates were reduced. In fact in many cases the FM broadcast of a station is higher quality than the DAB.

Internet radio stations vary in quality but the mainstream ones, like what you can get on DAB, can be got as HQ streams unless you are using an app that only supports lower quality.
see https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/other/codecs_bitrates as an example, the 320Kbs you get on the BBC sounds app is a lot higher than DAB
http://a-bc.co.uk/audio-quality-comparison-dab-pcm-fm-am/ shows some comparisons.

For those saying why DAB. A reason to choose DAB (or DTT) is broadcast rights, for instance sports events may be broadcast over DAB/DTT but not be available for online broadcasts. So if you are wanting to listen to a football match on your local BBC radio, you need OTA (over the Air) and not internet as usually they won't have worldwide broadcast rights.