Add-in card for radio to your pc

[Batmeat]

Anyone have experience using pci cards as a radio tuner? I'm looking at This and wondering how good it really works. Any other suggestions are welcome.

 

[frozentundra123456]

I havent tried a radio tuner per se, but I did have a tv tuner that could be used to tune FM if one wanted to.

But cant you listen to almost any radio station on a PC by just typing in the call letters or even just searching for stations in a given area and going to their website? Or what about an app such as "I heart radio" or Pandora?

 

[piasabird]

Try this website/forum:

http://www.thegreenbutton.tv/forums/viewforum.php?f=4

 

[vailr]

The linked item "WinTV-Radio" appears to be an outdated analog TV tuner. It may still work for cable TV reception, but not for over-air reception, since analog TV broadcast signals have been discontinued for several years now. Hauppauge does make other HDTV tuner cards, such as the WinTV-HVR-1800, which includes an FM radio tuner, as well as for over-air + cable HDTV reception.

 

[Batmeat]

Yea, I don't need a tv tuner card. Just a card that can pick up local radio. I want to be able to pipe the local radio from my computer to a set of in house speakers. This is easy with pandora, but local radio is proving to be more challenging.

 

[ViRGE]

Does it have to be a card? A few different companies make USB radio tuners; at this point in time that would be the more practical option.

 

[Batmeat]

Does it have to be a card? A few different companies make USB radio tuners; at this point in time that would be the more practical option.

Nope, it doesn't have to be a card. I didn't even think about a usb solution.