[Spirit FM] glamourservices:
Thanks Mike, just installed it and works fine, PTY shows right away as it should!

Regarding radio use, indeed manufacturers had it their way with disabling the FM feature as they relied on the massively consuming and profitable for them US market, where most - if not all - carriers offer unlimited data and very well built (compared to others) LTE networks. You can see lots of "smart asses" ignoring the significance of FM radio and even justify these decisions. In my eyes, any feature that could be possible should be there, regardless if the user would ever need it. In my country where there is no unlimited data and the networks suck, FM radio is still alive and kicking. The same goes for many other European and AMEA countries as far as I know, and the introduction of DAB+ radio is still delayed and will be delayed to my estimation for quite a few years to come.

Sony surprisingly is still offering radio to all its devices, even tablets, but there seems to be lots of laziness on improving their own radio service, I kept sending them messages for re-introducing the simplest radiotext function on their app and although they said at one point they'd add it, nothing happened at all!

Now, in Spirit 2 if I remember correctly you said at some point that you would gradually implement more functions that were present in Spirit 1. If you like, and as an active FM Dxer some suggestions that I believe would make Spirit2 the ultimate tool:

1. The 0.05Mhz scaling option, thus enabling tuning to frequencies such as 106.55

2. The addition of more RDS features such as ECC, LIC, Coverage and country, these are data which are co-present in the transmitted info, I don't know if parsing them should be a problem since the existing features are already parsed

3. More indicator icons such as STEREO and RDS availability, TA, TP, EON

4. The option of enabling or disabling the appearence of all the above features

For all of the above and especially the graphics creation and the UI design, I'd be more than happy to help if you show me how and want me to! Of course all of the above are suggestions, I know how hard and time consuming maintaining the app is, and I'm thankful to you for that!

In functionality list, regarding the use in my Xperia Z

1. The FM tuner seems to be using the microphone, unlike the built in app and I believe Spirit 1. In Spirit 1 for instance I could use the Track ID option with the radio on, and I could record the audio externally using a screen/audio recording program such as Shou. I don't know what broke this functionality in Spirit2 or even Lollipop. In Shou for instance, you can record the FM audio internally with amazing stereo sound, but you cannot hear the radio while recording. In Spirit 1 there was no problem with that!

2. While auto tuning, on many instances the search goes on uncontrollably without stopping, especially when the next station is kinda weak, the tuner won't stop on the next powerful station but will go full cycle until it reaches the previous tuned frequency again. I don't know what causes this, it's not very annoying or a problem for me, but I have to signify it as present

3. When tuning to a station, provided their pilot settings and signal strength, the RDS info is shown right away. When you tune to the next station the info is displayed again correctly. However if you choose to return to the previous stations using the tuning backwards, then both PI and PTY don't show. You have to tune to a new RDS station for datas to refresh and then back to the first station for data to be shown again. Only PS works flawlessly on every occasion.

4. Sometimes on Xperia Z the sound tends to clip and distort for a few seconds and then jumps back to normal. I have no idea what causes that!

These for the moment, I'll investigate further and hope I didn't make you dizzy!!! :p