Question about the sound at Drive In Movie Theater

[Paul H. Rayton]

I went to the CNet link that Ed provided. That article was written in 2017, and apparently Nextradio ceased operations somewhere around 2019 or thereabouts. Possibly it's been resuscitated by others, but you never know these days. I took my Android phone and did a search for "Nextradio" and found THREE different (apparent) sources. Pictured here is the display I saw. One provider is listed as "SuperAudio", another is "Lucian Gontila", and the third one is listed as "ilive". Considering the number of risky or hinky websites around, I'm reluctant to try any of them.

Also, and a word of caution: at that CNet article, in paragraph #16, the author claims that NextRadio had published "a list of devices and carriers that support its software", and it is underlined to indicate it is a link. I recommend that you NOT try it: I tried it, and quickly found myself at some Malaysian gambling site. Possibly the link has been hijacked?

In the sentence following that link described above, there is another link, in which the article claims that one can download the Nextradio app from there. Not so much. The second illustration shows the search results I got there -- another dead end.

Before I install any app (or executable file) on my system(s), I like to be fairly sure they're more or less legit, so I advise caution if accessing those old links!

[Ryan Gallagher]

Yeah the trick is while the phone hardware may support FM, most don't have native apps for it, and you end up in a sea of slightly suspect radio apps looking for a genuine FM one, and not just some internet radio app.

[Ed Gordon]

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A whole bunch of smartphones out on the market today have FM radio capabilities – but their owners don't know it. There's no real good reason for this lack of knowledge save the lack of advertising on the part of phone makers. FM Radio in a phone isn't currently a very sought-after feature, so – regardless of how often it's included in phones by default – it's just not spoken about. Today we're listing the whole lot of phone devices that can run FM Radio right out the box.

Read More: https://www.slashgear.com/792051/whi...y-fm-radio/

If you are looking for apps like Nextradio check out Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=nextradio&c=apps


Here is a screenshot of my Samsung/Moto phone running the bundled FM Radio app found in the "Media" group.

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