When I go to France my (analogue FM) car radio gives the title of the
piece of music playing. Why doesn't this happen in the UK?

Another Dave

On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:00:51 +0000, Another Dave
wrote:

When I go to France my (analogue FM) car radio gives the title of the
piece of music playing. Why doesn't this happen in the UK?

Another Dave

Yes I have seen pirate stations in this country use the program
identifier text to scroll information across the screen.

My car radio can also display the optional text RDS text that is
usually only available on non vehicular sets, but even this is fairly
static.



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"Another Dave" wrote in message
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When I go to France my (analogue FM) car radio gives the title of the
piece of music playing. Why doesn't this happen in the UK?

Another Dave

As already stated this is just the RDS text system which most UK FM stations
transmit if you have an enabled car or portable (eg my Pure One DAB/FM)
receiver. Usually UK stations display general info about the station or
programme as well as traffic reports but some (eg BBC Radio 1 on 98.5 FM)
often display details of the record playing exactly as you observerd in
France.

On 01/01/2012 16:00, Another Dave wrote:
When I go to France my (analogue FM) car radio gives the title of the
piece of music playing. Why doesn't this happen in the UK?

It depends. Most decent UK stations don't use pre-programmed playlists
and it's more difficult to supply this information "on-the-fly".

On 01/01/2012 17:08, MikeS wrote:

As already stated this is just the RDS text system which most UK FM stations
transmit if you have an enabled car or portable (eg my Pure One DAB/FM)
receiver. Usually UK stations display general info about the station or
programme as well as traffic reports but some (eg BBC Radio 1 on 98.5 FM)
often display details of the record playing exactly as you observerd in
France.


I'm a snob; I don't listen to Radio 1, only to Radio 3 and (sometimes)
Classic FM. Often I listen to a piece of music for 40 minutes wondering
what it is. Surely Radio 3 know what they're playing in advance?

Another Dave

On 01/01/2012 18:24, Another Dave wrote:
On 01/01/2012 17:08, MikeS wrote:

As already stated this is just the RDS text system which most UK FM
stations
transmit if you have an enabled car or portable (eg my Pure One DAB/FM)
receiver. Usually UK stations display general info about the station or
programme as well as traffic reports but some (eg BBC Radio 1 on 98.5 FM)
often display details of the record playing exactly as you observerd in
France.


I'm a snob; I don't listen to Radio 1, only to Radio 3 and (sometimes)
Classic FM. Often I listen to a piece of music for 40 minutes wondering
what it is. Surely Radio 3 know what they're playing in advance?

Call yourself a Radio 3 listener? You should know what it is.

Another Dave wrote:
When I go to France my (analogue FM) car radio gives the title of the
piece of music playing. Why doesn't this happen in the UK?

It does on Radio 2, the title of the record appears in the radio text field,
but only on live programmes, doesn't seem to happen on pre recorded shows,
which indicates the system is probably linked to the server that plays out the
records in the 'live' on air studios.

London's Melody Radio (long since swallowed up and reduced to drivel) was
doing this way back in the early-mid 1990s. It's only appeared relatively
recently on Radio 2.

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Graham. wrote:
On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:00:51 +0000, Another Dave
wrote:

When I go to France my (analogue FM) car radio gives the title of the
piece of music playing. Why doesn't this happen in the UK?

Another Dave

Yes I have seen pirate stations in this country use the program
identifier text to scroll information across the screen.

My car radio can also display the optional text RDS text that is
usually only available on non vehicular sets, but even this is fairly
static.

You should get a Peugeot, my 2008 407 displays the radio text field in all its
highly distracting scrolling glory. I had to enable the feature when I set the
radio up after buying the car, I dare say I'm breaking some UK law or other,
and someone will be along in here shortly to rap my knuckles. I'll add it to
the other apparent offence of having Test Card W as my desktop background.


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"Another Dave" wrote in message
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When I go to France my (analogue FM) car radio gives the title of the
piece of music playing. Why doesn't this happen in the UK?

Another Dave

As already stated this is just the RDS text system which most UK FM stations
transmit if you have an enabled car or portable (eg my Pure One DAB/FM)
receiver. Usually UK stations display general info about the station or
programme as well as traffic reports but some (eg BBC Radio 1 on 98.5 FM)
often display details of the record playing exactly as you observerd in
France.

I thought that I read somewhere the other day that this service IS
available here - but you can only get it by downgrading to DAB ...

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Terry

On Jan 1, 7:34*pm, Mark Carver wrote:

I'll add it to
the other apparent offence of having Test Card W as my desktop background..

Is this true?!