API for FM Radio?

[Holy Samosa]

Is there documentation for the FM tuner and Radio Data Service (RDS) API on Nokia's Windows phones?

Thanks!
Jeremy

[sreerajvr]

Hi Holy Samosa,

Please have a look @
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.92).aspx

Note: This app requires access to the phone’s media library (ID_CAP_MEDIALIB capability).

[Debmalya Jash]

I tried to use this namespace Microsoft.Devices.Radio

FMRadio.Instance - to create FMRadio singleton instance
RadioPowerMode.On - to power on
FMRadio.Frequency - to set the frequency
FMRadio.CurrentRegion = RadioRegion.UnitedStates (Currently other supported regions are Europe and Japan)

Tested in Windows Phone emulator. Not very impressive. Do not know whether i have missed any thing.
Always get some music (constantly played)
US - 89.4,91.4,93.4,96.4,101.4,106.8 (MHz)
Europe - 108.1 (MHz)
Japan - 90.1 (MHz)

I am trying to make it more accurate.

[petrib]

How's the radio reception in the emulator? I'd imagine it might work better in an actual device with an actual FM radio receiver.

[Holy Samosa]

Hey Guys!

Thanks to the pointer to Microsoft's new FMRadio class. My search missed that one.

Unfortunately and surprisingly, it doesn't support Radio Data Service (RDS)-- which is a must for my application. I would expect that the Nokia phones would support RDS, so will Nokia be providing an API?

Thanks!
Jeremy

[sreerajvr]

Although the built-in radio has RDS, it is n't exposed via public API

[mailmaster_swe]

Will there be a Nokia API? I could really need RDS info for one of my apps