Albrecht Lohofener

Albrecht Lohofener is an independent German developer who concentrates on open-source implementations of digital broadcast standards, most visibly the welle.io project that turns an inexpensive USB dongle into a full-featured DAB/DAB+ receiver. Written in cross-platform Qt, welle.io combines signal acquisition, channel decoding, audio playback and service information display in one intuitive interface, making terrestrial digital radio experimentation accessible to hobbyists, journalists verifying coverage, and installers who need a quick spectrum survey. Beyond the main desktop build, the codebase is regularly re-packaged for Android handhelds, Raspberry Pi field units and even headless servers, so the same ensemble of transmitter tables, dynamic labeling and MOT slideshow decoding can travel from the workbench to the car dashboard. Because the program is fully SDR-driven, users can record entire ensemble streams for later analysis or pipe raw ETI frames into other compliance tools, a flexibility that has seen welle.io adopted in university lab courses and regulatory measurement campaigns across Europe. The author maintains rolling nightly builds, responds to bug reports through GitHub discussions, and welcomes merge requests that extend support for emerging DAB+ profiles or alternative hardware front-ends. Albrecht Lohofener’s welle.io is offered free of charge on get.nero.com, where it is delivered through the trusted Windows package manager winget, always fetching the newest release and allowing the installation to be batched alongside any other utilities a workflow may require.