User Guide for
BOOMBox Online Radio Player

Quick Overview:
    BOOMBox is a small program that gives you quick, easy, categorized and searchable access to thousands of online radio stations at the click of a mouse. It is easy to use out of the box and has advanced features available to those who want more from online radio. BOOMBox has an easy to use main interface with quick and easy access to online radio stations. Use the Short category listing to get to the most popular genres of music online, or use the comprehensive Complete category listing to find the more specific genre of music that interests you. Once you found a genre that interests you and you send the program to get you a list of radio stations fitting your interest it can also display all the songs currently playing on all the stations that came back for quick and easy access to the songs you want to hear. You can also skip all that with a built-in search option to quickly list all radio stations playing your favorite kind of music, your favorite artist, or a specific song that you just cant get out of your head. Found a certain station that plays your kind of music? BOOMBox carries its own favorites database for you to get back to those stations that you like without having to dig through the listings again. You can also edit the station display and short description for better categorizing.

    A huge bonus we offer in BOOMBox is a built in recorder that allows you to save the music your currently listening on your hard drive. The recorder is easy to operate to quickly get you recording off your favorite online radio station, but also offers a powerful set of tools to get the most out of it. The recorder can detect song-changes and save the songs into separate files each labeled the song that was playing. It also comes with Advanced Song Change Detection which will create near-perfect song cuts on your PC so when you record each file contains that song and only that song.

Most Common Problems:
Q:  I click on 'Tune In' and BOOMBox displays that station in Currently Playing, but nothing is happening and there is no audio, what is the problem?
A1:  The problem is that you do not have a SHOUTcast compatible player to play the radio stations that BOOMBox passes to it. Below is a list of compatible players

-Winamp By Nullsoft - Recommended. You can get winamp at http://classic.winamp.com/download. When installing winamp make sure to keep all installation options as default, or if you do want to change the settings then make sure winamp stays associated with PLS files. If winamp is not associated with PLS files the problem will not be solved.

-Sonique - http://www.sonique.com. As with winamp you need to make sure when installing that it will be associated with PLS files.

-MusicMatch Jukebox - Free Version - http://www.musicmatch.com/download/free/. As with any other SHOUTcast compatible player, you need to make sure it is associated with PLS files.

-Any other program that can play PLS files should work.
NOTE: Windows Media Player is NOT compatible, although it can play some radio stations it is not SHOUTcast radio compatible!

A2: You have one of the players above or have a SHOUTcast compatible player but BOOMBox is still not working. The problem here is that it is not properly associated with PLS files so when BOOMBox tries to pass the station information to the player its not going to the right place. To fix this you need to do the following.

-Open > Control Panel.
-Double-Click (Open) > Folder Options.
-On the Folder Options properties area click on > File Types.
-Scroll down the list until you find the file type called > PLS (If PLS does not exist in the list look below to create it).
-Once PLS is selected click on > Change.
-Select the player available in the list, or if its not there click other to browse your computer.
-Click on OK.
-Your Done! BOOMBox should work now

(How to create the PLS File Type you need above: Click on New near the File Types list box, on the first dialog enter PLS and hit OK. Once its created it should be automatically added to the list, and be selected. From this point just continue the directions above.)

Q: When I hit 'Refresh Radio List', I get a 'Out of Memory' Error, why is this happening?
A: The problem does not lye in your memory amount. The problem is that since were not a big software company we didn't have a Windows 98/ME System available to test the system on. Since Windows 98/ME contain a different memory structure than Windows NT/2000/XP it could cause it to crash when retrieving the station list. For the time being you can lower the amount of Max Station Results to 10, then if that works to 20, and so on until you get the amount you can retrieve, this fix works for 99% of users. This problem will be resolved in the upcoming release of BOOMBox v2.0 so stay tuned. If you have a Windows 98/ME OS and you wish to be a beta tester for BOOMBox v2 you can email us at beta@jajsoft.com. Qualified beta testers will get a free registered copy of v2 when it is released.

Help Area

Section #1) Main Interface
Section #2) Song Population Interface
Section #3) Favorites Interface
Section #4) Recording Interface

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