DAB/DAB+ in SDRCrew: find the stations, click, listen

Big news: SDRCrew's DAB tab has gone from "find the multiplex name" to real listening of DAB+ stations, with a flow designed to be as simple as a car radio.

How it works

One click on "🔍 Find stations" and the app scans all 38 Band III channels by itself, each time checking for a real signal lock (not just "there is energy here") - slower than a scan by eye, but no false positives.

Results are kept: the multiplexes found and their stations are saved to disk, so they survive an app restart - no more scans to redo every time.

On every station found, a "▶ Listen" button: one click and real DAB+ audio starts, decoded live (MSC demux, Reed-Solomon, AAC via ffmpeg).

A "🗑 Clear results" button to start over when you change location or want to scan again.

Under the hood there is a pipeline written entirely from scratch following the ETSI standard (OFDM synchronisation, FFT, Viterbi, Reed-Solomon, HE-AACv2 decoder) - not a vendored external tool as in other tabs, because the open-source DAB decoders with Windows support available did not lend themselves to being orchestrated as an external process.

An honest note: like all over-the-air radio reception, quality depends on the real signal reaching your antenna - on a marginal channel you may get the occasional dropout.

Free and open as always. If you try it, let me know how it goes - contacts are in the Info tab. And if you like the project, a coffee to support its development is always welcome ☕.