History
Screamer Radio - Beta Development History
Steamcore, 2003-2010
www.screamer-radio.com
* Means something was changed/fixed
+ Means something was added
- Means something was removed
-- Version 0.4.4, released 2010-11-20
101120:
* Updated lame_enc.dll
-- Version 0.4.4 beta 2010-09-28
100928:
* Fixed menu bug with ampersands
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
