ezstream VS airspy-fmradion

Compare ezstream vs airspy-fmradion and see what are their differences.

ezstream

[Mirror] A streaming source client for Icecast (by xiph)

airspy-fmradion

Software decoder for FM/AM broadcast radio with AirSpy R2 / Mini, Airspy HF+, and RTL-SDR (by jj1bdx)
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0.0 7.7
almost 4 years ago 19 days ago
C C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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ezstream

Posts with mentions or reviews of ezstream. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-24.
  • https://np.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/paxk15/ubuntu_2004_sdr_fm_retransmit_to_a_single_user/ha86zrw/
    1 project | /r/backtickbot | 24 Aug 2021
    This does assume a few things: 1. That you've installed `rtl-sdr`, `lame`, and `ezstream` packages. 2. You have an /etc/ezstream.xml, as specified [here](https://github.com/xiph/ezstream/blob/develop/examples/ezstream-minimal.xml). 3. That you are running an Icecast server. Icecast itself has a well-maintained Docker image. If you're unfamiliar with Docker, the [official docs](https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/) are good on setting it up, but remember to also [install compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/). I use the following in my `docker-compose.yaml` to host it on Ubuntu:
  • Ubuntu 20.04 SDR FM retransmit to a single user
    4 projects | /r/RTLSDR | 24 Aug 2021
    This does assume a few things: 1. That you've installed rtl-sdr, lame, and ezstream packages. 2. You have an /etc/ezstream.xml, as specified here. 3. That you are running an Icecast server.

airspy-fmradion

Posts with mentions or reviews of airspy-fmradion. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-05.
  • Listen to HD radio with a $30 RTL SDR dongle
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Nov 2023
    I have a little hobby project where I record an FM radio music station using a SDR and then remove all the non-music portions for offline listening. I like the music selections the DJs pick, but I prefer not to listen to the DJ commentary and the advertisements.

    I evaluated three methods of recording: analog capture from a standalone FM receiver, using this nrsc5 library to record the "HD" radio stream, and using an AirSpy SDR with this library: https://github.com/jj1bdx/airspy-fmradion

    Recording the "HD" (what a misnomer) radio was nice in that there was no hiss or multipath effects, but in comparison to the other methods the digital compression artifacts became impossible to un-hear. It seems to top out at about 96 kbps

    The airspy-fmradion library has some nice stuff in it to address multipath, resulting in the best audio quality of the three methods I tested.

    I use https://github.com/ina-foss/inaSpeechSegmenter to identify which segments of the recordings are speech vs. music.

  • How to receive and record fm radio in stereo on the command line
    4 projects | /r/RTLSDR | 15 Mar 2023
    Alternatively, use airspy-fmradion:
  • Ubuntu 20.04 SDR FM retransmit to a single user
    4 projects | /r/RTLSDR | 24 Aug 2021
    You might want to look into using https://github.com/jj1bdx/airspy-fmradion instead of rtl_fm for stereo.
  • FM stereo decoder? (Linux, command line)
    3 projects | /r/RTLSDR | 30 Apr 2021
    You can use https://github.com/windytan/wfm-tools together with rtl_fm to get stereo, though I prefer https://github.com/jj1bdx/airspy-fmradion

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ezstream and airspy-fmradion you can also consider the following projects:

sample-icecast-noaa - A sample docker setup for streaming NOAA radio from a USB RTL-SDR dongle to Icecast, so you can listen tp it as an m3u stream.

AIS-catcher - AIS receiver for RTL SDR dongles, Airspy R2, Airspy Mini, Airspy HF+, HackRF, SDRplay and SoapySDR

openwebrx - Open source, multi-user SDR receiver software with a web interface

luaradio - A lightweight, embeddable software-defined radio framework built on LuaJIT

gnss-sdr - GNSS-SDR, an open-source software-defined GNSS receiver

wfm-tools - Some DSP tools for FM demodulation

SatDump - A generic satellite data processing software.

sdrangel - SDR Rx/Tx software for Airspy, Airspy HF+, BladeRF, HackRF, LimeSDR, PlutoSDR, RTL-SDR, SDRplay and FunCube

nrsc5-gui - A graphical interface for nrsc5

gr-aoa - GNU Radio package implementing MUSIC and root MUSIC angle of arrival algorithms with blocks necessary to provide phase synchronization of USRP devices

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