FM radios (eg in the cars) show the name of songs actually played. So the car radio needs to get song's name from somewhere. Is there a way to get this data into database? Just asking generally cause I was thinking how to get this data (Radio Station's name, the name of song). What should I use to do it?
How to get name of recently played song on FM radio station
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That's the Radio Data System (RDS). Yes, you can get that information, if you have a receiver that pushes the "raw" signal as it comes through the air into your PC. You would then be doing Software Defined Radio (SDR).
It's not costly to get such a receiver, and Bastian Blössl has continued work on a decoder and transmitter, gr-rds based on GNU Radio, an SDR processing framework. Great fun!