▲ ▼ Listening to obscure international radio station
I'm under lockdown in a foreign country, like many in my situation I'm home sick. When home sick, there are things which we can do to rejoice memories of home; for some it's cooking, watching favourite family show etc. for me it's listening to FM radio stations back home.
But, not all radio stations are available online especially when the station is from tier 3 or lower cities in India. Even when the online portal for a radio station is available, they play streams from select top-tier cities.
I would like to have a Spotify like app, which can play streams from FM radio stations from anywhere in the world.
checkout http://radio.garden it lets you stream many FMs in India.
Thank you, I've already looked into it; but Radio Garden doesn't have prominent FM radio stations in India, seems like they have some hobby radio stations hosted by individuals. Not sure, whether its some license issue.
You should check out (RTL SDR) - https://www.rtl-sdr.com/, it could be intimidating for a newbie but it's all about demodulating radio signals via software using a cheap USB DVB-T receiver which can receive FM radio as well.
I appreciate your comment, but that seems beyond my qualification!
It would be nice if there was just a radio box, which someone non-technical can plug into power at my house in my country and I could listen to it from anywhere else via an app on my mobile.
Technically there's no limitation for someone to create an accessible remote FM radio using SDR. There are several radios available from around the world as listed here - http://www.radio-browser.info/.
That was very informative and good to find so many radio stations from around the world. If I set my radio box at my home, I will try to put it on radio-browser.