How to receive and record fm radio in stereo on the command line

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  • ngsoftfm

    Discontinued NGSoftFM is a command line software decoder for FM broadcast radio with stereo support

  • librtlsdr

    Software to turn the RTL2832U into an SDR (by librtlsdr)

  • You have an older librtlsdr; I'm using the GitHub version, which adds extra features; https://github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr

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  • stereodemux

    Command-line FM stereo decoder with deemphasis

  • With rtl_fm you need stereodemux.

  • airspy-fmradion

    Software decoder for FM/AM broadcast radio with AirSpy R2 / Mini, Airspy HF+, and RTL-SDR

  • Alternatively, use airspy-fmradion:

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