DRM SoftRadio Features

The STARWAVES DRM SoftRadio is designed for ease-of-use and supports all core features of the DRM standard:

–  Listener-centric and easy to navigate app design and user interface

–  Multiple user interface languages. Currently supported: English, German, Simplified Chinese

–  Convenient frequency tuning and DRM Service selection

–  DRM Service labels and graphical service logos

–  Full service metadata: programme/app type, language, country of origin, etc.

–  All standardized DRM audio codecs incl. xHE-AAC with optimized tune-in performance for a quick start of audio playback

–  Journaline, DRM’s advanced text application, allows to interactively browse through latest news, sports and weather updates, programme background information and schedules, distance learning/RadioSchooling text books, travel information, and much more

–  Full Journaline feature set including hot-button interactivity, geo-references and embedded/linked images

–  Convenient and fast Journaline information access with update notifications for page-content (and automatic updates for menus), as well as persistent caching for instant content access when switching between DRM services

–  DRM text messages incl. DL+ support

–  Slideshow images

–  Unicode support for all textual elements: service labels, text messages, Journaline

–  DRM EWF – Emergency Warning Functionality within the DRM transmission: in case of an emergency alarm signal, automatically re-tunes from the current service to the emergency programme; presents the emergency audio along with multi-lingual Journaline content to provide in-depth instructions with interactive access and to serve non-native speakers or hearing impaired users

In addition, STARWAVES DRM SoftRadio is designed for maximum tuning flexibility and performance:

–  Free tuning to any DRM broadcast frequency

–  Supports all DRM frequency bands – from the former AM bands (LW/MW/SW) to the VHF bands (including the FM band), depending only on RF dongle functionality

–  Supports all DRM robustness modes (A-E), modulation parameters and on-air signal bandwidths

–  Optimized frequency tuning and re-sync performance

–  Graphical spectrum view to check the signal on the tuned frequency