LocalRadio Test Release v1.18-alpha
Pre-release
January 30, 2019 - LocalRadio Test Release v1.18-alpha
📻 LocalRadio is "Radio for Cord-Cutters" – a Software-Defined Radio app for your Mac and mobile devices. With an inexpensive RTL-SDR device plugged into the Mac's USB port, LocalRadio provides a casual listening experience for your favorite local FM broadcasts, free music, news, sports, weather, public safety and aviation scanner monitoring, etc.
This release replaces MP3 streaming audio format with AAC (Advanced Audio Coding), using Apple's AAC encoder included in macOS. AAC provides improved audio quality at comparable bit rates, and it is compatible with most devices, including Android systems.
This release adds https encrypted web and audio connections, and Bonjour mDNS host names. The HTTP servers use the Bonjour host name to generate a self-signed certificate. Upon the first https connection to the LocalRadio server, the user will be prompted to give permission to connect to the encrypted connection. The https/Bonjour connection works well with Apple products. For devices like Android that may not support Bonjour host name resolution, the existing http non-encrypted connections remain available.
This release improved performance for older, slower Macs, and various bug fixes.
The main release of LocalRadio (LocalRadio-v1.18-alpha.zip) requires macOS 10.14 Mojave, and an inexpensive RTL-SDR USB device for radio reception.
An alternate release (LocalRadio-v1.18-alpha-legacy.zip) is also available for older versions of Mac OS X, and has been tested with 10.11 El Capitan. This is useful for older Macs that cannot install Mojave. An old Mac mini can be a dedicated radio server with this legacy version of LocalRadio.
For the hardware requirements, many compatible RTL-SDR devices are available from online sellers. We recommend the RTL-SDR v3 device, available at Amazon.com.
This software not been independently tested, and should be treated as "pre-release software". You might want to wait until the initial bug reports are addressed and documentation is available.
The project home page is at https://github.com/dsward2/LocalRadio