Dream AM/DRM Receiver / News: Recent posts

Mac binaries are now available in the files area. Sources and other builds will follow.

This is mosltly a compatibility upgrade to work with the latest compilers but it does include support for the Fraunhofer FDK for AAC-HEv2 decoding.

The FDK will be built-in on Windows and Mac binaries so for the first time dream will decode audio without needing to find faad_drm.dll.

On linux the DRM library is built in to the libfaad2 package so this is a dependency on the .deb, rpm. Note that FAAD2 broke the DRM decoding in version 2.8 so if your distro has this you will need to find a way to go back to 2.7.

Our MediaWiki died when sourceforge dropped hosted apps. I've managed to bring it back to life at https://drm.sourceforge.io/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Dream 2.1 is now available in the Files area.

The Dream 2.1 binaries are all built against Qt4 and include the complete range of optional features. Binaries are available for the following platforms in the download area:

MS Windows: Built on Windows 7 32 bit using Visual Studio Express 2008 with XP compatibility. Should run on any 32 or 64 bit XP, Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8. Has anyone tried it on Windows 8?... read more

Mac and Windows Qt4 binaries for Dream 2.1 are available from the download area. These might not be the final versions, we are looking for people to check the packaging is OK.

The Mac version probably won't work on anything below Snow Leopard.

The Windows version is meant to be for XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Please let us know of any problems.

Linux binaries should be available soon.

Release notes will be available soon.... read more

A command line content server (excluding audio encoding capability) has been added to the repository for reference purposes.

Version 1.17 includes new features and bug fixes. Get it from the files area or for supported linux distributions update from the repositories as explained on the wiki.

Dropping MantisBT as the tracking tool. Open issues moved to the Ticket system in the new look sourceforge system. Tickets assigned to the release plan as discussed last week. Tentative dates put on the release plan - mostly based on the good work David has already done.

We will leave the CVS repositories on-line so people can get old releases if they really want to but all new development will be in subversion.

The old "unstable" code in subversion has been moved aside and the new dream folder is a direct evolution of the 1.15 release. Look for a proper Qt4 working version on all platform here soon.

Lots of bug fixes and you can now download AM and DRM schedule files directly from the originating web sites.

You can now dowload binaries of Dream for windows and linux. No AAC codec included but the program will load them if the DLL/so is available. Instructions for building the AAC codec will appear on the wiki.

The Dream development team today releases Dream version 1.12.

Dream is a DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) software receiver and decoder.
It is a very complete receiver, featuring compliant decoding of HE AAC v2
audio streams, journaline decoding, a feature rich statistics section
providing invaluable information about the streams being received, and automatic
update of available stations from the web, among several other features.... read more

This maintenance release fixes problems compiling with MSVC6/Visual Studio 6.

No other changes.

Dream 1.11a is now available for download. This is a minor change to 1.11 to build on newer linux distros.

Dream 1.11 is now available for download. Supporting Windows, Linux and Mac OSX this is the most stable and feature rich version yet.

The Dream development team today releases Dream version 1.2.4.

Dream is a DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) software receiver and decoder.
It is a very complete receiver, featuring compliant decoding of HE AAC v2
audio streams, journaline decoding, a feature rich statistics section
providing invaluable information about the streams being received, and automatic
update of available stations from the web, among several other features.... read more

The Dream development team today releases Dream version 1.2.2.

Dream is a DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) software receiver and decoder. It is a very complete receiver, featuring compliant decoding of HE AAC v2 audio streams, journaline decoding, a feature rich statistics section providing invaluable information
about the streams being received, and automatic update of available stations from the web, among several other features.... read more

Starting today, we have several news for the Dream project:

• The old forum will be abandoned in favour of a more fully featured one, that is reachable here:
  http://drm.sourceforge.net/forums/
  The new forum offers several improvements over the old one, like personal messaging, advanced search routines, users can edit and delete their own posts, hability to create polls and upload files, user management and, best of all, smileys! (the last part was actually a joke)... read more

This release includes major improvements for the Dream DRM transmitter. Now, AAC compressed audio data can be transmitted.
The Dream DRM receiver supports parametric stereo (P-Stereo).

This release also includes: Journaline, jpg-slideshows support, hamlib (controlling lots of front-ends), storing settings

New features: stations dialog with DRM schedule download (from www.drm-dx.de, powered by Klaus Schneider), remote control for different front-ends (e.g. Winradio, AOR7030, Elektor), GUI for DRM transmitter (use command line option '-t')

Dream is a software receiver for the brand new DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) system. DRM is a new digital radio standard for the long-, medium- and short wave ranges. DRM transmissions can be decoded with the Dream software by using a modified analog short-wave (MW, LW) front-end and using the sound card as the input and output device. Dream is actually one of the first available DRM receivers.

The main features of Dream are AAC+SBR decoding and multimedia support (slide show application). With version 1.0, all synchonization and estimation algorithms have reached a stable and reliable state.

So far, the Dream DRM receiver was only able to decode the core AAC audio codec. Recently, the audio codec library (FAAD) included SBR support. Unfortunately, a lot of modifications to this code were necessary to make it DRM compliant. A first patch (which is in BETA status) is now available for download on the page http://drm.sf.net in the "News" section (Note: This patch is only for the Windows version!)