michcia, 3 months ago

@kaia i'm unfamiliar with a beep but i do remember that RDS which carries the metadata for the radio stream has this feature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_announcement_(radio_data_systems) and if you set your radio to a channel that does traffic news and switch to cd it will switch to radio for the duration of traffic news and then switch back

chfour, 3 months ago

@kaia oh wasnt it the bbc or something that began doing that
that's for time sync i think like usually stations do news at :00 and :30 and the last long beep is or should be precisely when the clock hits that time
i think thats what that is at least

N33R, 3 months ago

@kaia Radio Data System, it also tells your radio the name of the station and lots of other information

kaia, 3 months ago

@N33R checking, thank you!!

johnelalamo, 3 months ago

@kaia Beep?

kaia, 3 months ago

@johnelalamo maybe that's a German/Euro thing, but there's a beep that tells old radios that there's an announcement and a mode that makes it louder if switched on