DAB-Z - Player for USB tuners

dabz

About this app

!!! further development is stopped starting 2025 !!!
With DAB-Z you can enjoy listening to Digital Radio DAB/DAB+ on your Android head unit in your car. You just need a USB DAB/DAB+ adapter, which you plug into your device.

The app also works with mobile phones and tablets that have "USB host" capabilities. Connect the DAB/DAB+ receiver via a USB-OTG adapter to it and start the app.
*** The app does NOT SUPPORT SDR USB adapters ***

Please use an antenna for the DAB/DAB+ adapter that is suitable for receiving DAB/DAB+ signals.

After you initially have scanned for stations you can:
* Easily select station from the list, even using your steering wheel buttons in the car
* Receive text messages ("Dynamic Label Segment") containing the current title and artist, if supplied by the station via broadcast
* Receive pictures ("SlideShow") containing artwork and station logo.
* View details about the station (e.g. ensemble name, service id, etc.)
* Built-in station logos, downloadable station logos
* Add your own station logos
* wide range of settings for layout and behavior of the app
... and a lot more ...

Support on XDA forum: https://xdaforums.com/t/dab-z-v2-x-usb-dab-dab-app-official-support-thread.4572071/

Ratings and reviews

Changed to 5 star. After emails back and forth about crashing issues it was suggested to plug the DAB reciver into a usb and then plug the hub into the stero. Crazy idea but instantly made a difference. Still crashed on sometimes and lost signal so I plugged it into a different port on the hub and it hasn't crashed in the last 12 months. It's now the best DAB app for android!!

App has been working quite OK in my Mekede Android 9.0 car radio, although reception was not very good with the windshield antenna. Somewhere I got an update and my sound was gone in this app alone. Tried everything without any success (of course all other apps did produce sound, so it was only this app). Finally de-installed the app and installed it again. Sound was back, but all my settings/stations had gone. Reconfigured my settings and did a station scan. Strangely enough, the public stations (like Radio 2 & 4 here in NL) did not appear in the list. However, the reception of the other stations was better than ever before! Based on the feedback of Adam Atkinson I unchecked Omri support and did a rescan... All the stations appeared again! I do hope reception will stay as good without Omri, it would greatly improve the benefit of DAB+

I haven't updated my car in ages, but did it today. Didn't even know there was a new UI version. As others have said reception does seem better, but only used it today. TBH I prefer the old UI (hence 4 stars), but after selecting dark mode it's not that bad. Updated station logos using house WIFI, rather than my car data dongle to save data !!

What’s new

2.0.239: New features and bugfixes are shown at first start and in Settings->Info