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- Screamer Radio - Beta Development History
- Steamcore, 2003-2010
- www.screamer-radio.com
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- * Means something was changed/fixed
- + Means something was added
- - Means something was removed
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- -- 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
-