RE: RDS car radio

["Brian Vita" <brian_vita@cssinc.com>]

I was excited to see that the radio in my new Nissan had RDS as a standard
feature.  I was disappointed to find that it only gives me the station ID
and not artist/title or other message.

Brian T. Vita, President
Cinema Service & Supply, Inc.
75 Walnut St. - Ste 4
Peabody, MA  01960-5691 USA
+1-978-538-7575 voice
+1-978-538-7550 fax
www.cssinc.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org 
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org] On 
> Behalf Of DonKelley@aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 1:20 PM
> To: aread@speakeasy.net; boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: RDS car radio
> 
> 
> Yes, the RDS data is encoded in the signal.
> 
> The really cool thing - and this only works on Greater Media 
> music stations (Magic, WROR, WKLB and WBOS) - when you hit 
> the info button you get the title, artist and year of the 
> song that's playing.  what's more, when you're near the end 
> of the song, or during a stopset, the info button will give 
> you the name of the artist who is coming up next!  How does 
> that happen, you ask??
> 
>