So the other day after about a days work of fixing whatever bugs I could find and updating the installation packages and language files to the best of my ability I released version 0.4.0. Within hours there had been several hundred downloads, and all was good.
Today I noticed people complaining about the new release being buggy and not working, really? Why? I had tested it for hours and hours and couldn’t find any bugs at all!
Turns out, the only people complaining were users of Windows 98. Since I didn’t have Windows 98 I just couldn’t test it properly and I could not replicate the problems. Then a light dawned on me, why not use Virtual PC? I found a dusty old Windows 98 CD I had stowed away amongst a pile of old CDs just waiting to be thrown away, and got to work installing this decade old bug ridden operating system. Finally, a way of testing the Windows 9x-version of Screamer Radio!
After a bit of testing I could see that there were actually two bugs in this release, and they would only show up if you are actually running it on Windows 9x, in Windows XP or Windows Vista the program runs just fine. Took me a few hours but I managed to track down why it wasn’t working properly and managed to fix it, so today I released version 0.4.1.
Hopefully all users will now enjoy a relatively bug free and stable experience which will allow me to concentrate on developing new features.
will there be a linux version of screamer ??
Kind regards Michael
No. But you can run Screamer Radion (at least the Win 9x version) in WINE, I’ve heard it’s supposed to work.
HELP … URGENT … HELP !!!
Today all my presets are gone! The menu is completely empty
. It seems that the presets.xml.gz available via web-update has 0 bytes.
What did break that? Can you plz fix this rapidly?
Thanks in advance,
Christoph
I’m not sure what happened, the data cache on the web server was empty. I had to restart the web server software, but it is working again now. This has never happened before, let’s hope it doesn’t happen again.
Dear author.
I don`t understand why so hard to write normal working program?
In new version exist _all_ old GUI bugs (http://forums.screamer-radio.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9870 , http://forums.screamer-radio.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9875, http://forums.screamer-radio.com/viewtopic.php?t=9537).
I install screamer 0.4.1 on fresh Windows XP installation. And after launch i have all GUI bugs – empty menu, radio not savings, gui-bugs in other applications, launched in parallels with Screamer Radio etc.
2 year and this simple bugs not solved – it is very non-professional!
If screamer menu is “hideously large” as you write – please create other way to display list of radiostations. It is clearly!
Screamer Radio – ideal program for radio recordings, but this GUI-bugs kill all pleasure.
Sorry for my english.
medar.
1. consider open source the project. other devs can help you update. you can use sourceforge.net which has cvs
2. don’t know about the preset menu issue, but browsers (ie, opera, firefox) all manage _BIG_ bookmark lists. maybe you can browse firefox source for how they do it.
screamer 0.41u on win 2k sp3 has menus disappearing, including the entire menu bar.
downloaded (zip). extracted. launched. listened to several presets for less than 10 minutes. preset menu sporadically disappeared/re-appeared. closed.
launched. presets not available. try multiple buttons/menus. menu bar disappears. hitting the rec button causes the menu bar to re-appear, until rec button is hit again. while menu bar is shown, only menu names work. cannot close app while menu bar is present.
Hi! I am having some problem with the latest version of ScreamerRadio: When radio is being recorded every second file has “[1]” in the end of tits name
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I downloaded the version 0.4.1 today on my Windows XP. After a few minutes using it, I noticed that Firefox was having problem displaying pages… It gave me a complete black screen. Even the reload did not work.
Screaming radio lost the menus Recording and Help. I had to restart the program twice for the menu to appear normally.
Also, when I got problem with Firefox, I tried to use Windows Task Manager and I got a very strange screen not displaying the list of applications, but a half drawn text field. I’ve never seen this before. After quitting Screaming radio, all worked properly.
Finally, I got the Windows Task Manager opening with your program and noticed that it was using 20 MB of memory. Isn’t this a lot??
I like your software a lot and have been using the previous version for over a year. It just seems that this upgrade has still a few more bugs…
Here goes another issue…
When station gets disconnected, the program cannot reconnect. It just stays with the message “Connecting…”. Then hitting the “Stop” button brings the “Aborting…” message, but nothing happens. At this point, we can’t switch to another station using Favorites. It keeps saying “Aborting…” Hitting “Stop” a few times has no effect.
The only solution is to exit and restart.
I did not have these issues with the previous version.
Don’t give up! You’ll get it right!
Hi.
I like Screamer Radio a lot, but I have two requests, which probably can’t be done but:
I’d like to be able to listen to Z100
http://www.freeproxyserver.net/index.php?view=aHR0cDovL3d3dy56MTAwLmNvbS8vY2MtY29tbW9uL3N0cmVhbWluZ19uZXcvaW5kZXguaHRtbD9yZWZyZXNoZWQ9bm8=&hl=1111101001
And
From here:
http://music.aol.com/radioguide/country-radio
I’d like to listen to US 99.5 and 94.1 KMPS
I know it’s probably impossible to do but at least you can tell me that now
Having problems with presets, windows XP sp3
Presets empty in menu.
Had to reinstall program, problem solved for a short time but apears again
Why do you waste your time on win9x? Are there any users still on 9x and use screamer?
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HELP … URGENT … HELP !!!
Today all my presets are gone! The menu is completely empty . It seems that the presets.xml.gz available via web-update has 0 bytes.
What did break that? Can you plz fix this rapidly?
Thanks in advance,
Christoph
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This did happen again today!
Can you plz fix it?
No News since August 2008?
