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Stable 2024-04-15
Bug fixes and improvements
Fixed so window no longer disappears after minimizing or closing to tray
Restore window in center of screen on startup if coordinates are more than half the window off screen
Some minor internal improvements
Fixed issue where Screamer always thought there was a new version available due to incorrect timestamps
Preview 2024-04-15
Bug fixes and improvements
Fixed so window no longer disappears after minimizing or closing to tray
Restore window in center of screen on startup if coordinates are more than half the window off screen
Some minor internal improvements
Fixed issue where Screamer always thought there was a new version available due to incorrect timestamps
Stable 2024-04-14
Welcome to the brand new Screamer Radio!
Announcement post
Summary of big changes
Brand new user interface with light and dark themes
Station listings have been redesigned to allow for more stations
New logo to celebrate the new user interface
Faster native binary written in .NET 8
Screamer Radio Plus subscription service to support the project
Design and functional changes in more detail
Refreshed design and new logo
Light and dark themes, default switches based on system theme
Updated icons with Bootstrap Icons
Separated favorites and search results into separate tabs
Moved tag information to a fixed side panel
Selection of a radio station displays details in the side panel
Play, stop and edit buttons in rows where the tags used to be (visible on hover or when active or selected)
Added navigation buttons for browsing stations
Added a 'clear selection' button for stations
Added a 'select random station' button for stations
Improved settings view with organized tabs and cleaner form
Added context menu options for links
Added informative tooltips on various elements
Added more options to the context menu for radio stations
Pressing F1 highlights the radio station list for easier keyboard navigation
Added a new option to prevent search from being focused at startup
Added close buttons on tabs for discoverability and accessibility
Changed "What's new" link to "Release notes" in upgrade notifications
Added a post-upgrade notification to release notes
Support more stream types
Support HLS streams
Support Opus streams
Support FLAC streams
Technical changes
.NET Framework is no more, Screamer is now using modern .NET 8
The new UI is written using Avalonia instead of WPF
Binary size has increased, but performance has improved due to use of native code
Implemented SQLite for storing radio stations and favorites
Bug fixes and improvements
Improved tray icon resolution on high-DPI displays
Corrected memory usage display in the 'About' view
Fixed issue where pressing Ctrl+O did not refocus the open URL input when deselected
Improved settings file handling by temporarily writing to a scratch file before moving it into place, reducing the risk of data loss during writing
Preview 2024-04-14
Welcome to the brand new Screamer Radio!
Summary of big changes
Brand new user interface with light and dark themes
Station listings have been redesigned to allow for more stations
New logo to celebrate the new user interface
Faster native binary written in .NET 8
Screamer Radio Plus subscription service to support the project
Design and functional changes in more detail
Refreshed design and new logo
Light and dark themes, default switches based on system theme
Updated icons with Bootstrap Icons
Separated favorites and search results into separate tabs
Moved tag information to a fixed side panel
Selection of a radio station displays details in the side panel
Play, stop and edit buttons in rows where the tags used to be (visible on hover or when active or selected)
Added navigation buttons for browsing stations
Added a 'clear selection' button for stations
Added a 'select random station' button for stations
Improved settings view with organized tabs and cleaner form
Added context menu options for links
Added informative tooltips on various elements
Added more options to the context menu for radio stations
Pressing F1 highlights the radio station list for easier keyboard navigation
Added a new option to prevent search from being focused at startup
Added close buttons on tabs for discoverability and accessibility
Changed "What's new" link to "Release notes" in upgrade notifications
Added a post-upgrade notification to release notes
Support more stream types
Support HLS streams
Support Opus streams
Support FLAC streams
Technical changes
.NET Framework is no more, Screamer is now using modern .NET 8
The new UI is written using Avalonia instead of WPF
Binary size has increased, but performance has improved due to use of native code
Implemented SQLite for storing radio stations and favorites
Bug fixes and improvements
Improved tray icon resolution on high-DPI displays
Corrected memory usage display in the 'About' view
Fixed issue where pressing Ctrl+O did not refocus the open URL input when deselected
Improved settings file handling by temporarily writing to a scratch file before moving it into place, reducing the risk of data loss during writing
Stable 2024-04-13
This release is primarily focused on preparing for the next major update that introduces a brand new UI based on Avalonia and leave the old .NET Framework behind in favor of .NET 8. I have also made some other important changes and bug fixes.
New features
Added support for media hot keys, allowing you to control playback using keyboard shortcuts.
Bug fixes
Fixed an issue where the open URL notification would not enable the open button.
Matched the AppUserModelID of the Squirrel-generated shortcuts to ensure that pinned taskbar shortcuts work as expected.
Other changes
Switched to a different tray icon library for compatibility with .NET 8.
Used a new code signing certificate from SSL.com
Moved Squirrel out of process instead of in .NET to allow for upgrade to .NET 8
Made a large number of other internal changes to prepare for the next big release
Please note that due to unforeseen circumstances, I was unable to renew the current code signing certificate and had to purchase a new one. As a result, you may see Windows SmartScreen warnings initially.
Preview 2024-04-13
This release is primarily focused on preparing for the next major update that introduces a brand new UI based on Avalonia and leave the old .NET Framework behind in favor of .NET 8. I have also made some other important changes and bug fixes.
New features
Added support for media hot keys, allowing you to control playback using keyboard shortcuts.
Bug fixes
Fixed an issue where the open URL notification would not enable the open button.
Matched the AppUserModelID of the Squirrel-generated shortcuts to ensure that pinned taskbar shortcuts work as expected.
Other changes
Switched to a different tray icon library for compatibility with .NET 8.
Used a new code signing certificate from SSL.com
Moved Squirrel out of process instead of in .NET to allow for upgrade to .NET 8
Made a large number of other internal changes to prepare for the next big release
Please note that due to unforeseen circumstances, I was unable to renew the current code signing certificate and had to purchase a new one. As a result, you may see Windows SmartScreen warnings initially.
Stable 2022-07-26
Bug fixes:
Fix URL not being updated when changing stream
Other changes:
The optional Google Analytics tracking has been completely removed
The list of licenses has been updated
Preview 2022-07-26
Bug fixes:
Fix URL not being updated when changing stream
Other changes:
The optional Google Analytics tracking has been completely removed
The list of licenses has been updated
Stable 2022-07-19
With this release .NET dll-files are no longer bundled into the exe using the old unsupported tool LibZ because it unfortunately caused TLS issues. As a bonus Screamer Radio should now start a lot faster too.
Bug fixes:
TLS connections should work again
Improvements:
Startup performance is greatly increased
Preview 2022-07-19
With this release .NET dll-files are no longer bundled into the exe using the old unsupported tool LibZ because it unfortunately caused TLS issues. As a bonus Screamer Radio should now start a lot faster too.
Bug fixes:
TLS connections should work again
Improvements:
Startup performance is greatly increased
Stable 2022-07-17
This release does not include many new features but lots of code was improved over several months of hard work.
New features:
Show album art provided by Shoutcast stream (try Soma FM for instance)
Added setting to always show station list on startup
Added option to copy album image URL
Improvements:
Improved how Screamer connects to stations, AAC+ streams connect faster
Improved keyboard navigation using tab, should be much more usable
Improved stream log making it more consistent
Improved add/edit station dialog, now using proper input validation
Now using high quality album art scaling which looks better on high DPI screens
Small album art images are cached in settings and restored when restarting to avoid a network request
Improved perceived performance when interacting with search results and clicking tags
Improved startup performance by loading more settings asynchronously
Improved performance in various other ways
Added 256x256 icon sizes
Other changes:
Updated to .NET Framework v4.7.2
Updated to BASS v2.4.16.1
Replaced BASS.NET with ManagedBass
Replaced Caliburn Micro with MVVM Toolkit
Removed last traces of Windows Forms, now using WPF for everything, even system tray icon
Code signing certificate is replaced, the old one expired
Modernized code base in many ways
Massive internal refactorings to make the code more well structured
Bug fixes from preview channel:
Fix failures to connect to streams because of duplicate header values
Tray notification did not handle empty titles
Copying text to clipboard using WPF API requires retries
Connecting to stations could block the UI thread
Preview 2022-06-20
Bug fixes:
Tray notification did not handle empty titles
Copying text to clipboard using WPF API requires retries
Connecting to stations could block the UI thread
Preview 2022-06-05-2
Bug fixes:
Fix failures to connect to streams because of duplicate header values
Preview 2022-06-05
This release does not include many new features but lots of code was improved over several months of hard work.
New features:
Show album art provided by Shoutcast stream (try Soma FM for instance)
Added setting to always show station list on startup
Added option to copy album image URL
Improvements:
Improved how Screamer connects to stations, AAC+ streams connect faster
Improved keyboard navigation using tab, should be much more usable
Improved stream log making it more consistent
Improved add/edit station dialog, now using proper input validation
Now using high quality album art scaling which looks better on high DPI screens
Small album art images are cached in settings and restored when restarting to avoid a network request
Improved perceived performance when interacting with search results and clicking tags
Improved startup performance by loading more settings asynchronously
Improved performance in various other ways
Added 256x256 icon sizes
Other changes:
Updated to .NET Framework v4.7.2
Updated to BASS v2.4.16.1
Replaced BASS.NET with ManagedBass
Replaced Caliburn Micro with MVVM Toolkit
Removed last traces of Windows Forms, now using WPF for everything, even system tray icon
Code signing certificate is replaced, the old one expired
Modernized code base in many ways
Massive internal refactorings to make the code more well structured
Stable 2019-11-22
New features:
Add "Center window" menu option to system tray menu
Automatically center the window if it starts up off screen
Added always on top toggle to view menu
Added output device selection to audio menu
Added visualization frequency setting, can now also be turned off
Prevent computer from sleeping while playing (can be changed in settings)
Changes:
Better grouping of settings in settings tab
Moved settings to view menu
Moved view menu next to help menu
Show warning for users with old .NET Framework versions, upcoming releases will require .NET Framework 4.7.2 or newer
Improvements:
Restore volume on restart even if the last played station can not be loaded
More detailed error messages when sound subsystem fails
Change of output device no longer requires stopping playback
Default output device will automatically switch when the system device setting changes
Window centering should now work on high DPI screens
Improve how browsers are launched when clicking links
Improved scroll bars, they now behave like normal scroll bars
Level visualization rewritten from scratch, should use much less processing power
Better looking drop down boxes
Bug fixes:
Fix race condition when closing
Fix internal exception when reading stream metadata
Fix crash bug in about tab
Fixed an issue that could cause the program to crash when clicking the tabs
Fixed bug affecting notifications in application
Fixed bugs when importing stations with no website URLs
Other:
Internal component updates and code improvements
Upgrade BASS to version 2.4.14
Removed 32-bit restriction, will run as a 64-bit process on 64-bit systems
Some minor performance improvements
Added more internal error handling to prevent crashes
Some internal improvements
WIll now automatically check for upgrades at most once per day, not every startup
Preview 2019-11-22
Changes:
Show warning for users with old .NET Framework versions, upcoming releases will require .NET Framework 4.7.2 or newer
Bug fixes:
Fixed bug affecting notifications in application
Fixed bugs when importing stations with no website URLs
Other:
Added more internal error handling to prevent crashes
Some internal improvements
WIll now automatically check for upgrades at most once per day, not every startup
Preview 2019-10-07
Bug fixes:
Fixed an issue that could cause the program to crash when clicking the tabs
Preview 2019-10-06
New features:
Added always on top toggle to view menu
Added output device selection to audio menu
Added visualization frequency setting, can now also be turned off
Prevent computer from sleeping while playing (can be changed in settings)
Changes:
Better grouping of settings in settings tab
Moved settings to view menu
Moved view menu next to help menu
Improvements:
Improved scroll bars, they now behave like normal scroll bars
Level visualization rewritten from scratch, should use much less processing power
Better looking drop down boxes
Other:
Removed 32-bit restriction, will run as a 64-bit process on 64-bit systems
Some minor performance improvements
Preview 2019-02-04
New features
Add "Center window" menu option to system tray menu
Automatically center the window if it starts up off screen
Improvements
Change of output device no longer requires stopping playback
Default output device will automatically switch when the system device setting changes
Window centering should now work on high DPI screens
Improve how browsers are launched when clicking links
Bug fixes:
Fix race condition when closing
Fix internal exception when reading stream metadata
Fix crash bug in about tab
Other:
Upgrade BASS to version 2.4.14
Preview 2018-10-01
Minor tweaks:
Restore volume on restart even if the last played station can not be loaded
More detailed error messages when sound subsystem fails
Other:
Internal component updates and code improvements
Stable 2018-09-23
Bug fixes:
Fixed a few internal bugs caused by race conditions
Playback was not stopped when desktop was locked
Connect to random crashed when station list was empty
Fixed issue when loading history on startup
Fixed startup deadlock issue
Other:
Refactored file I/O with improved locking mechanism
Some other internal refactorings
Removed some legacy ClickOnce code
Remove .NET assembly signing, code signing is enough
Upgraded dependencies
Will no longer wait forever to read/write files
Preview 2018-09-21
Bug fixes:
Fixed issue when loading history on startup
Probable fix for startup deadlock issue
Other:
Will no longer wait forever to read/write files
Preview 2018-09-01
Bug fixes:
Fixed a few internal bugs caused by race conditions
Playback was not stopped when desktop was locked
Connect to random crashed when station list was empty
Other:
Refactored file I/O with improved locking mechanism
Some other internal refactorings
Removed some legacy ClickOnce code
Remove .NET assembly signing, code signing is enough
Upgraded dependencies
Stable 2018-08-26
Changes since stable 2018-05-29
New features:
New setting to allow only one running instance
Output device selection
Stereo separation filter (can do mono)
Ctrl + scroll to adjust volume in smaller steps
Minor tweaks:
Add close current tab to menu
Add link to release notes in about menu and in update notification
Moved audio filters to menu instead of in options
Compressor and stereo separation filter should fade in
Bug fixes:
Could crash on certain streams
Fixed a heap corruption crash that could occur in certain situations
Fixed a few bugs in station export/import
Stations opened via "Open URL" was not always restored on restart
Fixed some internal resource leaks
Other:
Screamer now parses MPEG and Ogg streams to extract metadata like bitrate and frequency, this was done in preparation to be able to implement recording
Upgrade BASS to latest version which is now using WASAPI instead of DirectSound
The manual NSIS installer is now also digitally signed
Performance improvements in UI
More exception handling in sensitive places
Massive internal refactorings to make the code more maintainable
Version 2018-05-26
New version released with improved startup performance, better privacy controls and a few bug fixes.
Version 1.0
New installer
Until now, Screamer Radio has been installed and updated with a technology from Microsoft called ClickOnce. It has many issues, is overly complicated and has no way for the app itself to know if it is being updated. For these reasons I'm switching to a newer, simpler, and better installer called Squirrel that is being developed by GitHub.
This means you will have to reinstall Screamer Radio to continue to receive new updates.
Windows XP
Support for Windows XP is being dropped mainly because more and more components I want to use, including the Squirrel-installer, simply will not run on XP and it is holding the project back. Not to mention the hundreds of hours of work fixing issues on XP that could have been better spent on new features instead.
To add to that, Microsoft dropped support for Windows XP itself nearly 2 years ago, which means you really should not be using XP anyway since you do not get security updates any more.
Export favorite radio stations
A new feature that you should have received will let you export your list of favorite stations to a file that can be used to restore your favorites when you have installed the new version. You will find it in the file menu.
Version 0.4.4, released 2010-11-20
101120:
* Updated lame_enc.dll
-- Version 0.4.4 beta 2010-09-28
100926:
* A check that the url field is actually a URL
+ When playing presets, clicking the station link will take you to the
preset page on screamer-radio.com, this indicated by a red link color
* Fixed version number in resource file
100925:
* Fixed paged menus, now counting from 1-50, 51-100 instead of 0-50 ..
* Fixed crash bug for stations that embed XML in the stream title field
-- Version 0.4.4 beta 2010-09-24
100924:
* Fixed meta parsing crash bug
* Menu fix to be compatible with screen readers
* Upgraded BASS to 2.4.6.0
* Upgraded BASSWMA to 2.4.4.0
* Upgraded BASS_AAC to 2.4.2.0
* Enabled BASS playlist parsing as fallback
* Turned on DisablePopups option as default
090222:
* Fixed typo in configuration dialog
081019:
* Fixed bug that could cause random crashes on menu select
081016:
* Win98 version would not start because of new Vista compatible features
081014:
* Certain null streams caused stop callbacks before connection was even finished, could cause a deadlock situation
-- Version 0.4.3, released 2008-10-11
081011:
* Another menu tweak, last one I can think of
* Fixed bug causing screamer to overwrite old recorded files in some cases
* Screamer could warn you that it was recording on exit even when stopped
* UNICODE version (Win2k/XP/Vista) now installs in localappdata by default
* Installer now only requires normal user privileges in Windows Vista
* Now using Music folder as default recording target folder
-- Version 0.4.2, released 2008-10-01
081001:
* Another menu related fix, hopefully it will work slightly better now
* Fixed a deadlock bug
* Fixed bug causing stop button to be ineffective against connect attempts
+ Implemented automatic version update notifier
080930:
* Fixed bug in log window causing it to display wrong title in some cases
* Fixed one bug that would cause message "Connect error: No error"
* ICY tags sent via HTTP wasn't parsed
* ICY tags sent on AAC streams wasn't parsed
* Refactored and cleaned up some code
* Updated BASS to 2.4.2.0
080824:
* Missed that BASS 2.4 handles OGG metadata differently, now fixed
-- Version 0.4.1, released 2008-08-20
080820:
* Fixed menu bug affecting Windows 9x and WINE
* Fixed timer bug affecting Windows 9x and WINE
-- Version 0.4.0, released 2008-08-18
080818:
* Upgraded BASS to 2.4.1.1
* Upgraded BASSWMA to 2.4.1.1
+ Added a lot of language files and converted all of them to UTF-8
* Refactored a bunch of code
* Fixed UTF-8 bug on non UNICODE-build
* Peakmeter didn't update properly, required a restart to turn on or off
* Statusbar only updated when switching languages if you were currently playing
* Merged changelogs, now there is only one
080503:
* Resolved long path bug when recording
* Updated manifest file with Vista privilege properties
* Tray icon now recreated on explorer restart
* Tray icon now indicates if you are recording (when custom icon is off)
* Tray icon menu now has a quicker option to enable/disable recording
* Preset menus now split into columns of 35 items each
080427:
* Upgraded BASS to 2.4.0.1
* Upgraded BASSWMA to 2.4.0.1
* Upgraded BASS_AAC to 2.4.0.1
* Added manifest file and adjusted GUI a little, slightly prettier dialog
071022:
* Fixed internal string bug
070801:
+ Screamer now fades out on stop
* Windows Desktop Heap bug adressed, but not fixed.. will require new way to
select radio stations, preset menu is simply too large
-- Version 0.3.9, beta (never released as stable)
070222:
* Solved the lockup bug, FINALLY managed to painfully replicate the problem
070217:
* Removed an unneccessary callback from BASS and improved recorder semaphore
protection hopefully eliniating any potential deadlock bugs therein
+ Preset update notification added on manual update (silent on automatic)
+ Implemented basic proxy auth support
070215:
* Reverted window resize code to that of beta 060524
* Presets are now downloaded from a separate cache server to reduce
load on the main website
070128:
* Now using CreateTimerQueue-timers instead, should work in win2k
* Upgraded BASS to 2.3.0.2
070120:
* Improved proxy settings, they should now work much better
+ Added warning on exit when recording
+ Now recognizes icyx://
* Updated license agreement, Screamer Radio may no longer be modified
without restrictions for commercial applications
061223:
* The menu option Log Window is now straight under the help menu
061212:
* Moved Window menu, it is now a sub menu of the Help menu
* Right aligned the Help menu
061207:
* Implemented UTF-8 support for favorites and settings, forgot about those
* Now linking to UTF-8 version of Expat, UTF-16 was too messy
- Dropped charset.dll, don't need it any more
061124:
* Refurbished configuration dialog
+ Added browse button to editor setting
061027:
* Updated some confusing menu entries
* Last category in preset menu failed sometimes (ex: when playing Blue Mars)
+ Reinstated some old window resizing code.. looks okay with larger fonts now?
+ Now using libiconv for character code conversions (much more stable!)
+ Thanks to libiconv I now have a UNICODE build of Screamer Radio
* Clipboard routines didn't work with UNICODE, fixed
061001:
* Fixed some preset/favorites parsing bugs
* Improved playlist parsing (won't open html-files or open browser links now)
* Tray icon is now triggered on mouseup, not mousedown (proper behaviour)
060530:
* Upgraded BASS to 2.3.0.1
* Upgraded BASSWMA to 2.3.0.1
* Upgraded BASS_AAC to 2.3
* Screamer Radio now reports it's own user agent (thanks to BASS 2.3)
* Improved proxy support by BASS?
060524:
* Tray icon routines could cause startup crash
* Log window would always show up on start in some circumstances
+ Added and updated a few language files
060511:
* Now saving history and config to disk at every successful connect
060305:
+ Last used preset category now ends up at the bottom of the presets menu
+ Log window now snaps to main window
+ Log window now is shown/hidden along with main window if snapped
* Upgraded to Expat 2.0.0
* Will now play streams beginning with icy://
060227:
+ Winamp DSP plugin support, put plugins in a subfolder called plugins
060225:
* Improved threading code
* Fixed a 20 byte memory leak that's been haunting me for a week
* Now using windows multimedia timers instead of message loop dependent ones
060224:
+ UI now completely separated from core, console demo version available..
* Updated allocation strategy for buffers, should use less CPU now
+ Command line support, example: "screamer.exe http://www.di.fm/mp3/trance.pls"
060221:
* Massive internal restructuring, moving towards better OOP-design..
* Finally seem to be able to display correct mpeg type and bitrate
* Upgraded BASS to 2.2.0.4
* Upgraded BASSWMA to 2.2.0.8
* Fixed potential socket crash bug in playlist downloader
* Eliminated an unnecessary thread (thanks to better OOP design)
* AAC bitrate calc (ADTS parser) could end up in an infinite loop
060217:
* New metadata routines didn't always clear title and track
* Device enumerator now skips emulated devices (as well as bluetooth)
060215:
* Improved stream bitrate calculation and metadata callbacks
* Ogg streams could potentially crash Screamer (in some VERY rare cases)
* Oops, managed to mess up the log, now working again..
060214:
* Fixed favorites saving, again.. for real this time
+ Added menu option "Web Directory" to presets
060212:
* COM is now initialized for every thread, hopefully this will fix WMA problems
+ Now displaying why the last source failed in the error popup
* WMA metadata now working again (broken since update to BASSWMA 2.2.0.7)
* Error message when failing a WMA-stream was sometimes "No error"
+ Can now display bitrate on AAC streams as well (parsing ADTS frames)
060211:
* Open Recording Folder didn't always behave properly, should work now
+ Screamer Radio now asks if it should autoupdate presets at every startup
* Presets are now updated silently, no annoying messagebox at startup
+ Add favorite now has a dialog window
* It's now possible to record AAC-streams too (reencoded with Lame like WMA)
+ Upon first startup, Screamer now asks what language to use
* Log window now centered on first startup
060207:
* The user favorites wasn't saved properly using XML codewords (& -> &)
* Updated German language file
* Add to Favorites is now translatable (forgot about that one)
-- Version 0.3.8, released 2006-02-06
060131:
* Fixed a memory allocation bug that could induce crashes, thanks jolle
060130:
* Much improved ASX playlist parser
* Slightly better playlist type detection
+ Support for MSN Messenger "What I'm Listening To"
+ Users may now FINALLY Add Favorites from within Screamer Radio
060128:
* The playlist downloader can now handle HTTP/1.1 302 redirects
* Some internal restructuring
* Upgraded BASS to 2.2.0.3
* Upgraded BASSWMA to 2.2.0.7
+ Introducing BASS_AAC version 2.2, basic support for AAC, aacPlus and MP4
050605:
* Ampersands in the track title would be displayed wrong
* Changed "Single Song Mode" to "Single Track Mode"
050604:
* Some UNICODE playlists weren't parsed correctly
-- Version 0.3.7, released 2005-05-31
050530:
+ Single song recording mode, enable it in the recording menu
050524:
+ Balloon popups in tray
+ Now using zlib to download deflated (gzipped) presets,
this will save me (and you) a little bandwith
+ Added .wax as possible playlist extension
* Upgraded BASSWMA to 2.1.0.1, fixing a server playlist bug, thanks Ian!
+ Somewhat more sophisticated parsing of asx-playlists
* Window in build 050226 would steal focus
* Screamer Radio wouldn't start minimized even if a Windows shortcut said so
* Upgraded BASS to 2.1.0.5
* Upgraded BASSWMA to 2.1.0.2
* Balloon popups now only updated when necessary, silly code :)
* Screamer Radio no longer remembers recording state between sessions
* Audio is now unmuted on connect
+ New copy to clipboard option, copy the playlist URL
* Renamed 'lang.default.xml' to 'lang.english.xml'
+ It's now easier to select language file, Settings -> Language
* Log window would steal focus sometimes
050226:
* Screamer wouldn't play WMA streams over HTTP if URL didn't have .wma or .asf
* Recording bitrate could be wrong sometimes
-- Version 0.3.6
* Title and URL info would be wrong during connect from drag&drop,
clipboard and open url
* Now it won't try to play html, gif, jpg, php and asp files anymore :P
* Some code cleanup..
* When reconnecting, mute status would be lost (it woke me up once, hehe)
* Next and prev buttons could make interface lock when downloading playlist
* Modified connection procedure, should work better (e.g. http://foo/bar.wma)
* Forgot the fact that OGG metadata was UTF-8
+ OGG Vorbis Recording! Went through hell and back again to get this to work
* Fixed memory leak when reloading or updating presets and favorites
* Now fetching presets from new domain http://www.screamer-radio.com/
* Apparently WMA metadata is also UTF-8 in BASSWMA2.1, never noticed until now
* Fixed more UTF-8 troubles when loading special characters from xml-file
* Metadata now centralized throghout the whole program
+ Warning message (popup) for new users when trying to play nothing
+ Transparent stream save buffering, this makes it possible to save the entire
track even if you press record in the middle of the track (if the buffer
is large enough)
+ Now reading nominal OGG bitrate straight from stream (BASS not involved)
+ Added version information to resource
+ Added support for rtsp:// streams (NOT Real Audio)
* Much improved connection/reconnection routines + new settings
+ Now reading MPEG bitrate and type straight from stream (BASS not involved)
* Changed some compiler settings and optimized compressor,
I now get "0%" cpu usage on my system even with compressor on :)
+ History of radio stations in file menu for easy access
+ Customizable "IRC string"
+ Added clipboard menu to traymenu
* Fixed some problems with menu hotkeys
+ File editor now customizable
+ Some more recording options (%time%, %date%, %unix%)
* Small change in how presets are downloaded
* Made the window a couple of pixels smaller ;)
* Fixed some weird bug in configuration dialog
+ Localization support!
* Worked a bit on the installer and uninstaller
* '&' would underline text in some instances in the program
+ WMA Recording! Requires lame_enc.dll and will encode to mp3-format, you may
also encode OGG Streams to mp3 if you wish
+ Recording menu with some options
* Improved worker thread wait behaviour (now using WaitForSingleObject())
* Optimized startup and improved stability, it starts really fast now! BLAM!
+ Now possible to save log window contents to file
+ The window is now resized with respect to the menu height
* Changed version string "0.3 beta 6" -> "0.3.6"
* Upgraded BASS to version 2.1(.0.4)
* The url in the window now has limits to how long it can be ;)
-- Version 0.3 beta 5
* Screamer wouldn't load presets and favorites if autoplay failed
* Volume control now works properly
* Presets downloaded in a separate thread
* Displayed Title and URL when connecting was wrong
* Eliminated a memory leak, forgot to free a SCEW tree
* Internal restructuring, begun transformation to my new design
* Default settings was disappearing (oops)
+ Proxy support added (edit screamer.xml for now)
* Some timers wasn't properly disabled =/
* MASSIVE rework in the core of Screamer,
most things are now eventbased and multithreaded :)
+ Popups may now be disabled in configuration
+ Added proxy settings to configuration
* Presets wouldn't automatically be updated sometimes
(always terminate strings with null! :P)
-- Version 0.3 beta 4.1
* Due to popular demand, now linking MFC7.1 statically again!
-- Version 0.3 beta 4
* Upgraded BASS to version 2.0.0.22
* Upgraded BASSWMA to version 2.0.0.3
* Rewrote the handling of audio devices, they are now no longer released
every time you press stop
* Implemented better UNICODE detection
* More internal restructuring.. damn, I suck :p
* Song Title would say not playing when buffering
+ Implemented recording, currently only available for MP3 (SHOUTcast/ODDSOCK)
* Reworked shutdown procedure, there was some funky stuff going on
* Path parsing now use Shell Lightweight Utility Functions (shlwapi.lib)
+ Added an option in the help menu to restore the tray icon
* Converted the Screamer project from VS6.0 to Visual Studio .NET
* Statically linking MFC7.1 to keep backwards compability (60 kbyte overhead)
* Started transition from CMarkup Lite to PugXML (another 20 kbyte extra)
* Child windows in settings dialog didn't set the parent window properly
* Messed around with the statusbar a bit
* Upgraded BASS to version 2.1
* Upgraded BASSWMA to version 2.1
* Automatically download updated presets on startup
* Reads Station URLs from file if possible (as requested)
* Added a record button (as requested)
* Window position no longer forced to be on screen because this wouldn't work
properly on multi monitor desktops (thanks Ingulf)
* Rebuilt the systray menu somewhat (added options for mute and recording)
* screamer.xml now editable in regular notepad :)
* Presets now autodownloaded if missing (even if mistakenly deleted)
* Settings now loaded with Expat, threw PugXML out the windows,
I should really release a new version officially soon ;)
* CString is no longer being used *phew*, using my own class EString
* Unfortunately I'm no longer linking MFC7.1 statically so there might be
compability problems on older systems (nothing a DLL-install won't fix
though)
+ Added the Help menu to the systray menu, hehe
* Reworked thread handling, little immediate difference though
* FINALLY got rid of CMarkupLite as well, Expat now rules supreme!
+ Added warning when trying to record something that cannot be recorded
-- Version 0.3 beta 3
* Rewrote a couple of hundred lines of code.. again!
* Fixed a small memory leak that would leak a couple of kb of memory
* Window will now be centered on the first startup
* Optimized some window updating and startup code
+ Support for ClearType text
* "No stream source" would be saved to the config file, no more
* Some under the hood changes in the config dialog
+ Extended the tray menu with the File menu
+ Added an Open URL dialog in the File menu
+ Implemented a log window
+ Implemented easy move on the main window and the log window
* Added and changed some values in screamer.xml
* Screamer now dynamically loads the dlls which means you can remove
basswma.dll if you don't want WMA support
* Corrected a grammatical error in the changelog, thanks arneduck! ;)
* The clickable part of URLs are no longer wider than necessary
* The volume slider could be wrong on startup
* Made the left part of the statusbar slightly wider
* My UNICODE stuff broke the playlist downloading sometimes, now fixed
-- Version 0.3 beta 2
* Upgraded BASS to 2.0.0.20
+ Added clickable URLs, thanks to catch22 (http://www.catch22.org.uk/)
+ Added an about box
* Modified the Peakmeter configuration dialog
+ Added drag and drop support for text (like URLs from a browser)
* Fixed tab order in the dialogs
* Changed the file menu
+ Added a small threshold in the compressor so it won't lower the volume
because of a single byte or two
+ Added support for playlists in UNICODE format
* Sorta fixed the bug that made it impossible to stop while buffering
(but sometimes it outright crashes instead! I have no idea why!)
* Fixed a positioning bug when exiting while minimized
* Falsely displayed N/A in the streamtype info if bitrate was unavailable
* Rewrote state machine code.. SHOULD me more stable now
* Failed to close sockets properly when downloading playlists
* Changing soundcard settings no longer requires a restart of Screamer,
just a restart of playback
* Fixed timers not being reset properly sometimes when minimizing
* Cleaned up some code here and there
* Queuing up several radio stations while connecting would crash
-- Version 0.3 beta 1
+ First public release
Bug fixes and improvements
Fixed so window no longer disappears after minimizing or closing to tray
Restore window in center of screen on startup if coordinates are more than half the window off screen
Some minor internal improvements
Fixed issue where Screamer always thought there was a new version available due to incorrect timestamps
Preview 2024-04-15
Bug fixes and improvements
Fixed so window no longer disappears after minimizing or closing to tray
Restore window in center of screen on startup if coordinates are more than half the window off screen
Some minor internal improvements
Fixed issue where Screamer always thought there was a new version available due to incorrect timestamps
Stable 2024-04-14
Welcome to the brand new Screamer Radio!
Announcement post
Summary of big changes
Brand new user interface with light and dark themes
Station listings have been redesigned to allow for more stations
New logo to celebrate the new user interface
Faster native binary written in .NET 8
Screamer Radio Plus subscription service to support the project
Design and functional changes in more detail
Refreshed design and new logo
Light and dark themes, default switches based on system theme
Updated icons with Bootstrap Icons
Separated favorites and search results into separate tabs
Moved tag information to a fixed side panel
Selection of a radio station displays details in the side panel
Play, stop and edit buttons in rows where the tags used to be (visible on hover or when active or selected)
Added navigation buttons for browsing stations
Added a 'clear selection' button for stations
Added a 'select random station' button for stations
Improved settings view with organized tabs and cleaner form
Added context menu options for links
Added informative tooltips on various elements
Added more options to the context menu for radio stations
Pressing F1 highlights the radio station list for easier keyboard navigation
Added a new option to prevent search from being focused at startup
Added close buttons on tabs for discoverability and accessibility
Changed "What's new" link to "Release notes" in upgrade notifications
Added a post-upgrade notification to release notes
Support more stream types
Support HLS streams
Support Opus streams
Support FLAC streams
Technical changes
.NET Framework is no more, Screamer is now using modern .NET 8
The new UI is written using Avalonia instead of WPF
Binary size has increased, but performance has improved due to use of native code
Implemented SQLite for storing radio stations and favorites
Bug fixes and improvements
Improved tray icon resolution on high-DPI displays
Corrected memory usage display in the 'About' view
Fixed issue where pressing Ctrl+O did not refocus the open URL input when deselected
Improved settings file handling by temporarily writing to a scratch file before moving it into place, reducing the risk of data loss during writing
Preview 2024-04-14
Welcome to the brand new Screamer Radio!
Summary of big changes
Brand new user interface with light and dark themes
Station listings have been redesigned to allow for more stations
New logo to celebrate the new user interface
Faster native binary written in .NET 8
Screamer Radio Plus subscription service to support the project
Design and functional changes in more detail
Refreshed design and new logo
Light and dark themes, default switches based on system theme
Updated icons with Bootstrap Icons
Separated favorites and search results into separate tabs
Moved tag information to a fixed side panel
Selection of a radio station displays details in the side panel
Play, stop and edit buttons in rows where the tags used to be (visible on hover or when active or selected)
Added navigation buttons for browsing stations
Added a 'clear selection' button for stations
Added a 'select random station' button for stations
Improved settings view with organized tabs and cleaner form
Added context menu options for links
Added informative tooltips on various elements
Added more options to the context menu for radio stations
Pressing F1 highlights the radio station list for easier keyboard navigation
Added a new option to prevent search from being focused at startup
Added close buttons on tabs for discoverability and accessibility
Changed "What's new" link to "Release notes" in upgrade notifications
Added a post-upgrade notification to release notes
Support more stream types
Support HLS streams
Support Opus streams
Support FLAC streams
Technical changes
.NET Framework is no more, Screamer is now using modern .NET 8
The new UI is written using Avalonia instead of WPF
Binary size has increased, but performance has improved due to use of native code
Implemented SQLite for storing radio stations and favorites
Bug fixes and improvements
Improved tray icon resolution on high-DPI displays
Corrected memory usage display in the 'About' view
Fixed issue where pressing Ctrl+O did not refocus the open URL input when deselected
Improved settings file handling by temporarily writing to a scratch file before moving it into place, reducing the risk of data loss during writing
Stable 2024-04-13
This release is primarily focused on preparing for the next major update that introduces a brand new UI based on Avalonia and leave the old .NET Framework behind in favor of .NET 8. I have also made some other important changes and bug fixes.
New features
Added support for media hot keys, allowing you to control playback using keyboard shortcuts.
Bug fixes
Fixed an issue where the open URL notification would not enable the open button.
Matched the AppUserModelID of the Squirrel-generated shortcuts to ensure that pinned taskbar shortcuts work as expected.
Other changes
Switched to a different tray icon library for compatibility with .NET 8.
Used a new code signing certificate from SSL.com
Moved Squirrel out of process instead of in .NET to allow for upgrade to .NET 8
Made a large number of other internal changes to prepare for the next big release
Please note that due to unforeseen circumstances, I was unable to renew the current code signing certificate and had to purchase a new one. As a result, you may see Windows SmartScreen warnings initially.
Preview 2024-04-13
This release is primarily focused on preparing for the next major update that introduces a brand new UI based on Avalonia and leave the old .NET Framework behind in favor of .NET 8. I have also made some other important changes and bug fixes.
New features
Added support for media hot keys, allowing you to control playback using keyboard shortcuts.
Bug fixes
Fixed an issue where the open URL notification would not enable the open button.
Matched the AppUserModelID of the Squirrel-generated shortcuts to ensure that pinned taskbar shortcuts work as expected.
Other changes
Switched to a different tray icon library for compatibility with .NET 8.
Used a new code signing certificate from SSL.com
Moved Squirrel out of process instead of in .NET to allow for upgrade to .NET 8
Made a large number of other internal changes to prepare for the next big release
Please note that due to unforeseen circumstances, I was unable to renew the current code signing certificate and had to purchase a new one. As a result, you may see Windows SmartScreen warnings initially.
Stable 2022-07-26
Bug fixes:
Fix URL not being updated when changing stream
Other changes:
The optional Google Analytics tracking has been completely removed
The list of licenses has been updated
Preview 2022-07-26
Bug fixes:
Fix URL not being updated when changing stream
Other changes:
The optional Google Analytics tracking has been completely removed
The list of licenses has been updated
Stable 2022-07-19
With this release .NET dll-files are no longer bundled into the exe using the old unsupported tool LibZ because it unfortunately caused TLS issues. As a bonus Screamer Radio should now start a lot faster too.
Bug fixes:
TLS connections should work again
Improvements:
Startup performance is greatly increased
Preview 2022-07-19
With this release .NET dll-files are no longer bundled into the exe using the old unsupported tool LibZ because it unfortunately caused TLS issues. As a bonus Screamer Radio should now start a lot faster too.
Bug fixes:
TLS connections should work again
Improvements:
Startup performance is greatly increased
Stable 2022-07-17
This release does not include many new features but lots of code was improved over several months of hard work.
New features:
Show album art provided by Shoutcast stream (try Soma FM for instance)
Added setting to always show station list on startup
Added option to copy album image URL
Improvements:
Improved how Screamer connects to stations, AAC+ streams connect faster
Improved keyboard navigation using tab, should be much more usable
Improved stream log making it more consistent
Improved add/edit station dialog, now using proper input validation
Now using high quality album art scaling which looks better on high DPI screens
Small album art images are cached in settings and restored when restarting to avoid a network request
Improved perceived performance when interacting with search results and clicking tags
Improved startup performance by loading more settings asynchronously
Improved performance in various other ways
Added 256x256 icon sizes
Other changes:
Updated to .NET Framework v4.7.2
Updated to BASS v2.4.16.1
Replaced BASS.NET with ManagedBass
Replaced Caliburn Micro with MVVM Toolkit
Removed last traces of Windows Forms, now using WPF for everything, even system tray icon
Code signing certificate is replaced, the old one expired
Modernized code base in many ways
Massive internal refactorings to make the code more well structured
Bug fixes from preview channel:
Fix failures to connect to streams because of duplicate header values
Tray notification did not handle empty titles
Copying text to clipboard using WPF API requires retries
Connecting to stations could block the UI thread
Preview 2022-06-20
Bug fixes:
Tray notification did not handle empty titles
Copying text to clipboard using WPF API requires retries
Connecting to stations could block the UI thread
Preview 2022-06-05-2
Bug fixes:
Fix failures to connect to streams because of duplicate header values
Preview 2022-06-05
This release does not include many new features but lots of code was improved over several months of hard work.
New features:
Show album art provided by Shoutcast stream (try Soma FM for instance)
Added setting to always show station list on startup
Added option to copy album image URL
Improvements:
Improved how Screamer connects to stations, AAC+ streams connect faster
Improved keyboard navigation using tab, should be much more usable
Improved stream log making it more consistent
Improved add/edit station dialog, now using proper input validation
Now using high quality album art scaling which looks better on high DPI screens
Small album art images are cached in settings and restored when restarting to avoid a network request
Improved perceived performance when interacting with search results and clicking tags
Improved startup performance by loading more settings asynchronously
Improved performance in various other ways
Added 256x256 icon sizes
Other changes:
Updated to .NET Framework v4.7.2
Updated to BASS v2.4.16.1
Replaced BASS.NET with ManagedBass
Replaced Caliburn Micro with MVVM Toolkit
Removed last traces of Windows Forms, now using WPF for everything, even system tray icon
Code signing certificate is replaced, the old one expired
Modernized code base in many ways
Massive internal refactorings to make the code more well structured
Stable 2019-11-22
New features:
Add "Center window" menu option to system tray menu
Automatically center the window if it starts up off screen
Added always on top toggle to view menu
Added output device selection to audio menu
Added visualization frequency setting, can now also be turned off
Prevent computer from sleeping while playing (can be changed in settings)
Changes:
Better grouping of settings in settings tab
Moved settings to view menu
Moved view menu next to help menu
Show warning for users with old .NET Framework versions, upcoming releases will require .NET Framework 4.7.2 or newer
Improvements:
Restore volume on restart even if the last played station can not be loaded
More detailed error messages when sound subsystem fails
Change of output device no longer requires stopping playback
Default output device will automatically switch when the system device setting changes
Window centering should now work on high DPI screens
Improve how browsers are launched when clicking links
Improved scroll bars, they now behave like normal scroll bars
Level visualization rewritten from scratch, should use much less processing power
Better looking drop down boxes
Bug fixes:
Fix race condition when closing
Fix internal exception when reading stream metadata
Fix crash bug in about tab
Fixed an issue that could cause the program to crash when clicking the tabs
Fixed bug affecting notifications in application
Fixed bugs when importing stations with no website URLs
Other:
Internal component updates and code improvements
Upgrade BASS to version 2.4.14
Removed 32-bit restriction, will run as a 64-bit process on 64-bit systems
Some minor performance improvements
Added more internal error handling to prevent crashes
Some internal improvements
WIll now automatically check for upgrades at most once per day, not every startup
Preview 2019-11-22
Changes:
Show warning for users with old .NET Framework versions, upcoming releases will require .NET Framework 4.7.2 or newer
Bug fixes:
Fixed bug affecting notifications in application
Fixed bugs when importing stations with no website URLs
Other:
Added more internal error handling to prevent crashes
Some internal improvements
WIll now automatically check for upgrades at most once per day, not every startup
Preview 2019-10-07
Bug fixes:
Fixed an issue that could cause the program to crash when clicking the tabs
Preview 2019-10-06
New features:
Added always on top toggle to view menu
Added output device selection to audio menu
Added visualization frequency setting, can now also be turned off
Prevent computer from sleeping while playing (can be changed in settings)
Changes:
Better grouping of settings in settings tab
Moved settings to view menu
Moved view menu next to help menu
Improvements:
Improved scroll bars, they now behave like normal scroll bars
Level visualization rewritten from scratch, should use much less processing power
Better looking drop down boxes
Other:
Removed 32-bit restriction, will run as a 64-bit process on 64-bit systems
Some minor performance improvements
Preview 2019-02-04
New features
Add "Center window" menu option to system tray menu
Automatically center the window if it starts up off screen
Improvements
Change of output device no longer requires stopping playback
Default output device will automatically switch when the system device setting changes
Window centering should now work on high DPI screens
Improve how browsers are launched when clicking links
Bug fixes:
Fix race condition when closing
Fix internal exception when reading stream metadata
Fix crash bug in about tab
Other:
Upgrade BASS to version 2.4.14
Preview 2018-10-01
Minor tweaks:
Restore volume on restart even if the last played station can not be loaded
More detailed error messages when sound subsystem fails
Other:
Internal component updates and code improvements
Stable 2018-09-23
Bug fixes:
Fixed a few internal bugs caused by race conditions
Playback was not stopped when desktop was locked
Connect to random crashed when station list was empty
Fixed issue when loading history on startup
Fixed startup deadlock issue
Other:
Refactored file I/O with improved locking mechanism
Some other internal refactorings
Removed some legacy ClickOnce code
Remove .NET assembly signing, code signing is enough
Upgraded dependencies
Will no longer wait forever to read/write files
Preview 2018-09-21
Bug fixes:
Fixed issue when loading history on startup
Probable fix for startup deadlock issue
Other:
Will no longer wait forever to read/write files
Preview 2018-09-01
Bug fixes:
Fixed a few internal bugs caused by race conditions
Playback was not stopped when desktop was locked
Connect to random crashed when station list was empty
Other:
Refactored file I/O with improved locking mechanism
Some other internal refactorings
Removed some legacy ClickOnce code
Remove .NET assembly signing, code signing is enough
Upgraded dependencies
Stable 2018-08-26
Changes since stable 2018-05-29
New features:
New setting to allow only one running instance
Output device selection
Stereo separation filter (can do mono)
Ctrl + scroll to adjust volume in smaller steps
Minor tweaks:
Add close current tab to menu
Add link to release notes in about menu and in update notification
Moved audio filters to menu instead of in options
Compressor and stereo separation filter should fade in
Bug fixes:
Could crash on certain streams
Fixed a heap corruption crash that could occur in certain situations
Fixed a few bugs in station export/import
Stations opened via "Open URL" was not always restored on restart
Fixed some internal resource leaks
Other:
Screamer now parses MPEG and Ogg streams to extract metadata like bitrate and frequency, this was done in preparation to be able to implement recording
Upgrade BASS to latest version which is now using WASAPI instead of DirectSound
The manual NSIS installer is now also digitally signed
Performance improvements in UI
More exception handling in sensitive places
Massive internal refactorings to make the code more maintainable
Version 2018-05-26
New version released with improved startup performance, better privacy controls and a few bug fixes.
Version 1.0
New installer
Until now, Screamer Radio has been installed and updated with a technology from Microsoft called ClickOnce. It has many issues, is overly complicated and has no way for the app itself to know if it is being updated. For these reasons I'm switching to a newer, simpler, and better installer called Squirrel that is being developed by GitHub.
This means you will have to reinstall Screamer Radio to continue to receive new updates.
Windows XP
Support for Windows XP is being dropped mainly because more and more components I want to use, including the Squirrel-installer, simply will not run on XP and it is holding the project back. Not to mention the hundreds of hours of work fixing issues on XP that could have been better spent on new features instead.
To add to that, Microsoft dropped support for Windows XP itself nearly 2 years ago, which means you really should not be using XP anyway since you do not get security updates any more.
Export favorite radio stations
A new feature that you should have received will let you export your list of favorite stations to a file that can be used to restore your favorites when you have installed the new version. You will find it in the file menu.
Version 0.4.4, released 2010-11-20
101120:
* Updated lame_enc.dll
-- Version 0.4.4 beta 2010-09-28
100926:
* A check that the url field is actually a URL
+ When playing presets, clicking the station link will take you to the
preset page on screamer-radio.com, this indicated by a red link color
* Fixed version number in resource file
100925:
* Fixed paged menus, now counting from 1-50, 51-100 instead of 0-50 ..
* Fixed crash bug for stations that embed XML in the stream title field
-- Version 0.4.4 beta 2010-09-24
100924:
* Fixed meta parsing crash bug
* Menu fix to be compatible with screen readers
* Upgraded BASS to 2.4.6.0
* Upgraded BASSWMA to 2.4.4.0
* Upgraded BASS_AAC to 2.4.2.0
* Enabled BASS playlist parsing as fallback
* Turned on DisablePopups option as default
090222:
* Fixed typo in configuration dialog
081019:
* Fixed bug that could cause random crashes on menu select
081016:
* Win98 version would not start because of new Vista compatible features
081014:
* Certain null streams caused stop callbacks before connection was even finished, could cause a deadlock situation
-- Version 0.4.3, released 2008-10-11
081011:
* Another menu tweak, last one I can think of
* Fixed bug causing screamer to overwrite old recorded files in some cases
* Screamer could warn you that it was recording on exit even when stopped
* UNICODE version (Win2k/XP/Vista) now installs in localappdata by default
* Installer now only requires normal user privileges in Windows Vista
* Now using Music folder as default recording target folder
-- Version 0.4.2, released 2008-10-01
081001:
* Another menu related fix, hopefully it will work slightly better now
* Fixed a deadlock bug
* Fixed bug causing stop button to be ineffective against connect attempts
+ Implemented automatic version update notifier
080930:
* Fixed bug in log window causing it to display wrong title in some cases
* Fixed one bug that would cause message "Connect error: No error"
* ICY tags sent via HTTP wasn't parsed
* ICY tags sent on AAC streams wasn't parsed
* Refactored and cleaned up some code
* Updated BASS to 2.4.2.0
080824:
* Missed that BASS 2.4 handles OGG metadata differently, now fixed
-- Version 0.4.1, released 2008-08-20
080820:
* Fixed menu bug affecting Windows 9x and WINE
* Fixed timer bug affecting Windows 9x and WINE
-- Version 0.4.0, released 2008-08-18
080818:
* Upgraded BASS to 2.4.1.1
* Upgraded BASSWMA to 2.4.1.1
+ Added a lot of language files and converted all of them to UTF-8
* Refactored a bunch of code
* Fixed UTF-8 bug on non UNICODE-build
* Peakmeter didn't update properly, required a restart to turn on or off
* Statusbar only updated when switching languages if you were currently playing
* Merged changelogs, now there is only one
080503:
* Resolved long path bug when recording
* Updated manifest file with Vista privilege properties
* Tray icon now recreated on explorer restart
* Tray icon now indicates if you are recording (when custom icon is off)
* Tray icon menu now has a quicker option to enable/disable recording
* Preset menus now split into columns of 35 items each
080427:
* Upgraded BASS to 2.4.0.1
* Upgraded BASSWMA to 2.4.0.1
* Upgraded BASS_AAC to 2.4.0.1
* Added manifest file and adjusted GUI a little, slightly prettier dialog
071022:
* Fixed internal string bug
070801:
+ Screamer now fades out on stop
* Windows Desktop Heap bug adressed, but not fixed.. will require new way to
select radio stations, preset menu is simply too large
-- Version 0.3.9, beta (never released as stable)
070222:
* Solved the lockup bug, FINALLY managed to painfully replicate the problem
070217:
* Removed an unneccessary callback from BASS and improved recorder semaphore
protection hopefully eliniating any potential deadlock bugs therein
+ Preset update notification added on manual update (silent on automatic)
+ Implemented basic proxy auth support
070215:
* Reverted window resize code to that of beta 060524
* Presets are now downloaded from a separate cache server to reduce
load on the main website
070128:
* Now using CreateTimerQueue-timers instead, should work in win2k
* Upgraded BASS to 2.3.0.2
070120:
* Improved proxy settings, they should now work much better
+ Added warning on exit when recording
+ Now recognizes icyx://
* Updated license agreement, Screamer Radio may no longer be modified
without restrictions for commercial applications
061223:
* The menu option Log Window is now straight under the help menu
061212:
* Moved Window menu, it is now a sub menu of the Help menu
* Right aligned the Help menu
061207:
* Implemented UTF-8 support for favorites and settings, forgot about those
* Now linking to UTF-8 version of Expat, UTF-16 was too messy
- Dropped charset.dll, don't need it any more
061124:
* Refurbished configuration dialog
+ Added browse button to editor setting
061027:
* Updated some confusing menu entries
* Last category in preset menu failed sometimes (ex: when playing Blue Mars)
+ Reinstated some old window resizing code.. looks okay with larger fonts now?
+ Now using libiconv for character code conversions (much more stable!)
+ Thanks to libiconv I now have a UNICODE build of Screamer Radio
* Clipboard routines didn't work with UNICODE, fixed
061001:
* Fixed some preset/favorites parsing bugs
* Improved playlist parsing (won't open html-files or open browser links now)
* Tray icon is now triggered on mouseup, not mousedown (proper behaviour)
060530:
* Upgraded BASS to 2.3.0.1
* Upgraded BASSWMA to 2.3.0.1
* Upgraded BASS_AAC to 2.3
* Screamer Radio now reports it's own user agent (thanks to BASS 2.3)
* Improved proxy support by BASS?
060524:
* Tray icon routines could cause startup crash
* Log window would always show up on start in some circumstances
+ Added and updated a few language files
060511:
* Now saving history and config to disk at every successful connect
060305:
+ Last used preset category now ends up at the bottom of the presets menu
+ Log window now snaps to main window
+ Log window now is shown/hidden along with main window if snapped
* Upgraded to Expat 2.0.0
* Will now play streams beginning with icy://
060227:
+ Winamp DSP plugin support, put plugins in a subfolder called plugins
060225:
* Improved threading code
* Fixed a 20 byte memory leak that's been haunting me for a week
* Now using windows multimedia timers instead of message loop dependent ones
060224:
+ UI now completely separated from core, console demo version available..
* Updated allocation strategy for buffers, should use less CPU now
+ Command line support, example: "screamer.exe http://www.di.fm/mp3/trance.pls"
060221:
* Massive internal restructuring, moving towards better OOP-design..
* Finally seem to be able to display correct mpeg type and bitrate
* Upgraded BASS to 2.2.0.4
* Upgraded BASSWMA to 2.2.0.8
* Fixed potential socket crash bug in playlist downloader
* Eliminated an unnecessary thread (thanks to better OOP design)
* AAC bitrate calc (ADTS parser) could end up in an infinite loop
060217:
* New metadata routines didn't always clear title and track
* Device enumerator now skips emulated devices (as well as bluetooth)
060215:
* Improved stream bitrate calculation and metadata callbacks
* Ogg streams could potentially crash Screamer (in some VERY rare cases)
* Oops, managed to mess up the log, now working again..
060214:
* Fixed favorites saving, again.. for real this time
+ Added menu option "Web Directory" to presets
060212:
* COM is now initialized for every thread, hopefully this will fix WMA problems
+ Now displaying why the last source failed in the error popup
* WMA metadata now working again (broken since update to BASSWMA 2.2.0.7)
* Error message when failing a WMA-stream was sometimes "No error"
+ Can now display bitrate on AAC streams as well (parsing ADTS frames)
060211:
* Open Recording Folder didn't always behave properly, should work now
+ Screamer Radio now asks if it should autoupdate presets at every startup
* Presets are now updated silently, no annoying messagebox at startup
+ Add favorite now has a dialog window
* It's now possible to record AAC-streams too (reencoded with Lame like WMA)
+ Upon first startup, Screamer now asks what language to use
* Log window now centered on first startup
060207:
* The user favorites wasn't saved properly using XML codewords (& -> &)
* Updated German language file
* Add to Favorites is now translatable (forgot about that one)
-- Version 0.3.8, released 2006-02-06
060131:
* Fixed a memory allocation bug that could induce crashes, thanks jolle
060130:
* Much improved ASX playlist parser
* Slightly better playlist type detection
+ Support for MSN Messenger "What I'm Listening To"
+ Users may now FINALLY Add Favorites from within Screamer Radio
060128:
* The playlist downloader can now handle HTTP/1.1 302 redirects
* Some internal restructuring
* Upgraded BASS to 2.2.0.3
* Upgraded BASSWMA to 2.2.0.7
+ Introducing BASS_AAC version 2.2, basic support for AAC, aacPlus and MP4
050605:
* Ampersands in the track title would be displayed wrong
* Changed "Single Song Mode" to "Single Track Mode"
050604:
* Some UNICODE playlists weren't parsed correctly
-- Version 0.3.7, released 2005-05-31
050530:
+ Single song recording mode, enable it in the recording menu
050524:
+ Balloon popups in tray
+ Now using zlib to download deflated (gzipped) presets,
this will save me (and you) a little bandwith
+ Added .wax as possible playlist extension
* Upgraded BASSWMA to 2.1.0.1, fixing a server playlist bug, thanks Ian!
+ Somewhat more sophisticated parsing of asx-playlists
* Window in build 050226 would steal focus
* Screamer Radio wouldn't start minimized even if a Windows shortcut said so
* Upgraded BASS to 2.1.0.5
* Upgraded BASSWMA to 2.1.0.2
* Balloon popups now only updated when necessary, silly code :)
* Screamer Radio no longer remembers recording state between sessions
* Audio is now unmuted on connect
+ New copy to clipboard option, copy the playlist URL
* Renamed 'lang.default.xml' to 'lang.english.xml'
+ It's now easier to select language file, Settings -> Language
* Log window would steal focus sometimes
050226:
* Screamer wouldn't play WMA streams over HTTP if URL didn't have .wma or .asf
* Recording bitrate could be wrong sometimes
-- Version 0.3.6
* Title and URL info would be wrong during connect from drag&drop,
clipboard and open url
* Now it won't try to play html, gif, jpg, php and asp files anymore :P
* Some code cleanup..
* When reconnecting, mute status would be lost (it woke me up once, hehe)
* Next and prev buttons could make interface lock when downloading playlist
* Modified connection procedure, should work better (e.g. http://foo/bar.wma)
* Forgot the fact that OGG metadata was UTF-8
+ OGG Vorbis Recording! Went through hell and back again to get this to work
* Fixed memory leak when reloading or updating presets and favorites
* Now fetching presets from new domain http://www.screamer-radio.com/
* Apparently WMA metadata is also UTF-8 in BASSWMA2.1, never noticed until now
* Fixed more UTF-8 troubles when loading special characters from xml-file
* Metadata now centralized throghout the whole program
+ Warning message (popup) for new users when trying to play nothing
+ Transparent stream save buffering, this makes it possible to save the entire
track even if you press record in the middle of the track (if the buffer
is large enough)
+ Now reading nominal OGG bitrate straight from stream (BASS not involved)
+ Added version information to resource
+ Added support for rtsp:// streams (NOT Real Audio)
* Much improved connection/reconnection routines + new settings
+ Now reading MPEG bitrate and type straight from stream (BASS not involved)
* Changed some compiler settings and optimized compressor,
I now get "0%" cpu usage on my system even with compressor on :)
+ History of radio stations in file menu for easy access
+ Customizable "IRC string"
+ Added clipboard menu to traymenu
* Fixed some problems with menu hotkeys
+ File editor now customizable
+ Some more recording options (%time%, %date%, %unix%)
* Small change in how presets are downloaded
* Made the window a couple of pixels smaller ;)
* Fixed some weird bug in configuration dialog
+ Localization support!
* Worked a bit on the installer and uninstaller
* '&' would underline text in some instances in the program
+ WMA Recording! Requires lame_enc.dll and will encode to mp3-format, you may
also encode OGG Streams to mp3 if you wish
+ Recording menu with some options
* Improved worker thread wait behaviour (now using WaitForSingleObject())
* Optimized startup and improved stability, it starts really fast now! BLAM!
+ Now possible to save log window contents to file
+ The window is now resized with respect to the menu height
* Changed version string "0.3 beta 6" -> "0.3.6"
* Upgraded BASS to version 2.1(.0.4)
* The url in the window now has limits to how long it can be ;)
-- Version 0.3 beta 5
* Screamer wouldn't load presets and favorites if autoplay failed
* Volume control now works properly
* Presets downloaded in a separate thread
* Displayed Title and URL when connecting was wrong
* Eliminated a memory leak, forgot to free a SCEW tree
* Internal restructuring, begun transformation to my new design
* Default settings was disappearing (oops)
+ Proxy support added (edit screamer.xml for now)
* Some timers wasn't properly disabled =/
* MASSIVE rework in the core of Screamer,
most things are now eventbased and multithreaded :)
+ Popups may now be disabled in configuration
+ Added proxy settings to configuration
* Presets wouldn't automatically be updated sometimes
(always terminate strings with null! :P)
-- Version 0.3 beta 4.1
* Due to popular demand, now linking MFC7.1 statically again!
-- Version 0.3 beta 4
* Upgraded BASS to version 2.0.0.22
* Upgraded BASSWMA to version 2.0.0.3
* Rewrote the handling of audio devices, they are now no longer released
every time you press stop
* Implemented better UNICODE detection
* More internal restructuring.. damn, I suck :p
* Song Title would say not playing when buffering
+ Implemented recording, currently only available for MP3 (SHOUTcast/ODDSOCK)
* Reworked shutdown procedure, there was some funky stuff going on
* Path parsing now use Shell Lightweight Utility Functions (shlwapi.lib)
+ Added an option in the help menu to restore the tray icon
* Converted the Screamer project from VS6.0 to Visual Studio .NET
* Statically linking MFC7.1 to keep backwards compability (60 kbyte overhead)
* Started transition from CMarkup Lite to PugXML (another 20 kbyte extra)
* Child windows in settings dialog didn't set the parent window properly
* Messed around with the statusbar a bit
* Upgraded BASS to version 2.1
* Upgraded BASSWMA to version 2.1
* Automatically download updated presets on startup
* Reads Station URLs from file if possible (as requested)
* Added a record button (as requested)
* Window position no longer forced to be on screen because this wouldn't work
properly on multi monitor desktops (thanks Ingulf)
* Rebuilt the systray menu somewhat (added options for mute and recording)
* screamer.xml now editable in regular notepad :)
* Presets now autodownloaded if missing (even if mistakenly deleted)
* Settings now loaded with Expat, threw PugXML out the windows,
I should really release a new version officially soon ;)
* CString is no longer being used *phew*, using my own class EString
* Unfortunately I'm no longer linking MFC7.1 statically so there might be
compability problems on older systems (nothing a DLL-install won't fix
though)
+ Added the Help menu to the systray menu, hehe
* Reworked thread handling, little immediate difference though
* FINALLY got rid of CMarkupLite as well, Expat now rules supreme!
+ Added warning when trying to record something that cannot be recorded
-- Version 0.3 beta 3
* Rewrote a couple of hundred lines of code.. again!
* Fixed a small memory leak that would leak a couple of kb of memory
* Window will now be centered on the first startup
* Optimized some window updating and startup code
+ Support for ClearType text
* "No stream source" would be saved to the config file, no more
* Some under the hood changes in the config dialog
+ Extended the tray menu with the File menu
+ Added an Open URL dialog in the File menu
+ Implemented a log window
+ Implemented easy move on the main window and the log window
* Added and changed some values in screamer.xml
* Screamer now dynamically loads the dlls which means you can remove
basswma.dll if you don't want WMA support
* Corrected a grammatical error in the changelog, thanks arneduck! ;)
* The clickable part of URLs are no longer wider than necessary
* The volume slider could be wrong on startup
* Made the left part of the statusbar slightly wider
* My UNICODE stuff broke the playlist downloading sometimes, now fixed
-- Version 0.3 beta 2
* Upgraded BASS to 2.0.0.20
+ Added clickable URLs, thanks to catch22 (http://www.catch22.org.uk/)
+ Added an about box
* Modified the Peakmeter configuration dialog
+ Added drag and drop support for text (like URLs from a browser)
* Fixed tab order in the dialogs
* Changed the file menu
+ Added a small threshold in the compressor so it won't lower the volume
because of a single byte or two
+ Added support for playlists in UNICODE format
* Sorta fixed the bug that made it impossible to stop while buffering
(but sometimes it outright crashes instead! I have no idea why!)
* Fixed a positioning bug when exiting while minimized
* Falsely displayed N/A in the streamtype info if bitrate was unavailable
* Rewrote state machine code.. SHOULD me more stable now
* Failed to close sockets properly when downloading playlists
* Changing soundcard settings no longer requires a restart of Screamer,
just a restart of playback
* Fixed timers not being reset properly sometimes when minimizing
* Cleaned up some code here and there
* Queuing up several radio stations while connecting would crash
-- Version 0.3 beta 1
+ First public release