This is a USB radio, with input for external antenna, and it provies the sound over USB (no cables to pick up noise/no cable spaghetti)
please check out this product...
http://www.silabs.com/tgwWebApp/publ...USBFMRadio.htm
please observe links to AN264 and AN264SW
in the world of electronics, AN means Application Note, and the AN264SW contains all software source, and I guess it's more or less all you would need ?
then this link :
http://www.alibri.it/RRMobile/Silab%20USB%20Radio.htm
it proves that the chip's (Si4701) hardware RDS decoder works fine. - AND provide some software.
could somebody please make a plugin for this device?
it would be the best FM radio tuner for car-computers because it is not a part of a bulky TV card, and because it sends audio digitally, rather than messing with cables/noise like HQCT.
and the best of all ? - price - at $35 it's about 1/3 of the price of HQCT or Cinergy TV tuner with RDS.