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RDS Spy / Re: Enhanced RT ODA support?
« Last post by Rían Mac Guinneál (fmdx.ie) on June 01, 2026, 09:16:56 pm »
Quote from: Jan on June 01, 2026, 09:02:01 pm
I am ready to give it the highest priority and fully implement these features to all products within a few weeks. However, it seems that the RDS2 technology (incl. logo and eRT) has been rejected by car radio manufacturers. Until their approach changes, it is unlikely that we will continue to implement software features that will not be useful in practice. Of course, we value our users. We try to accommodate them and we are constantly working on improving features that have daily benefits. Integral part of this activity is the ability to put things aside that may well represent a dead end.
By the way, we gave the RDS Spy a simple API interface. A skilled programmer can write an eRT plugin in a few days if there is real interest.
I understand that you probably expected a better answer, but I hope you will at least appreciate my honesty :)

Thanks for the honesty. At least from my experiments it works in Skoda and VW cars.
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RDS Spy / Re: Enhanced RT ODA support?
« Last post by Jan on June 01, 2026, 09:02:01 pm »
The eRT is an ODA application, so it can be broadcast using existing encoders via the UECP protocol, just like some stations broadcast RT+.
I am ready to give it the highest priority and directly implement these features to all products within a few weeks. However, it seems that the RDS2 technology (incl. logo and eRT) has been rejected by car radio manufacturers. Until their approach changes, it is unlikely that we will continue to implement software features that will not be useful in practice. Of course, we value our users. We try to accommodate them and we are constantly working on improving features that have daily benefits. Integral part of this activity is the ability to put things aside that may well represent a dead end.
By the way, we gave the RDS Spy a simple API interface. A skilled programmer can write an eRT plugin in a few days if there is real interest.
I understand that you probably expected a better answer, but I hope you will at least appreciate my honesty :)
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RDS Spy / Re: Enhanced RT ODA support?
« Last post by Rían Mac Guinneál (fmdx.ie) on June 01, 2026, 08:42:58 pm »
Here is a sample of eRT and eRT+. The recording is long enough to observe 3 messages with 2 different tags.
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RDS Spy / Re: Enhanced RT ODA support?
« Last post by andrew01 on June 01, 2026, 08:35:15 pm »
It would also be really nice if the RDS Encoders would also have these options available, not only RDS Spy.  ;)
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RDS Spy / Enhanced RT ODA support?
« Last post by Rían Mac Guinneál (fmdx.ie) on June 01, 2026, 08:31:47 pm »
Will RDS Spy ever support the Enhanced RadioText (eRT) and Enhanced RadioText plus (eRT+) in the future?

I understand it is not implemented commercially, but I did implement it in my prototype encoder which works in other decoding softwares such as RDS Surveyor.

ODA : Radiotext+ for eRT [4BD8]
ODA : eRT (Enhanced RadioText) [6552]

Would it be possible to implement this?  :D
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Feature Requests / Re: Truncation of long titles to be usable for Radiotext
« Last post by andrew01 on May 01, 2026, 08:12:33 pm »
Never knew you could do this, I thought it can only do the basics, not cut the titles too. Ty and cheers for the script!  8)

Works like a charm! I will adapt it further with AI's help to my needs (cutting info from titles too)  ;)

btw.. is there anything to make it as a condition NOT to truncate unless the text is 64 characters long? That would be perfect :)
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Feature Requests / Re: Truncation of long titles to be usable for Radiotext
« Last post by Jan on May 01, 2026, 07:52:58 pm »
There's really no need to be afraid of using regular expressions even though their writings sometimes look scary.

Go to External Text Sources - Text Replacing and add these two lines:

Code: [Select]
Change
%REGEXP%\s&\s.*?\s-\s
To
 -

Change
%REGEXP%\sfeat\.\s.*?\s-\s
To
 -


Please note the SPACE, DASH, SPACE in the To field.


Result:

Khayan & The New World Power - Feel The Vibe
shows as Khayan - Feel The Vibe

D.O.N.S. feat. Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam
shows as D.O.N.S. - Pump Up The Jam


You mentioned AI, which is a good helper if you want to create another regular expression to find the desired part of the text.
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Feature Requests / Re: Truncation of long titles to be usable for Radiotext
« Last post by Jan on May 01, 2026, 07:32:45 pm »
I'm not sure if one preset can cover all cases, or if there is a universal setting that will suit everyone. With a regular expression, everyone can customize it without having to add additional controls to the GUI. We'll leave it at that for now.
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Feature Requests / Re: Truncation of long titles to be usable for Radiotext
« Last post by andrew01 on May 01, 2026, 07:04:32 pm »
Indeed there is that function, but it would have been a tiny bit nicer if something default (such as modifying "and" to "&", or "feat." to "," etc.) was all added through a single button. Also, I don't think it would be beneficial adding the artist name like "Afrika Bambaata" to be put in that text replacement tool, since for example I have the song "Afrika Bambaataa; The Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock", and wouldn't that remove the artist even though the text is <64 characters?
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Feature Requests / Re: Truncation of long titles to be usable for Radiotext
« Last post by Jan on May 01, 2026, 06:10:11 pm »
Using the built-in text replacement (regular expression), you can easily shorten the text as desired. Additionally, if you drop the prefix "Afrika Bambaataa presents" from the text, or place the show name in another text in a loop, you can fit an even longer song title in there. Do you want to give an example here?
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