Screamer Radio 0.3 Beta 4 Reviews and Download

Screamer is a tiny Internet radio player for Windows. Supported formats include Shoutcast Streaming, OGG Vorbis Streaming, and Windows Media Audio Streaming - plus recording of Shoutcast streams (mp3).

Software: Freeware

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 2000, XP

Download: Screamer Radio 0.3 Beta 4

Homepage: Screamer Radio

Version ChangeLog:

Upgraded BASS to version 2.0.0.22
Upgraded BASSWMA to version 2.0.0.3
Rewrote the handling of audio devices
Implemented better UNICODE detection
More internal restructuring
Song Title would say not playing when buffering
Implemented recording, currently only available for MP3 (SHOUTcast/ODDSOCK)
Reworked shutdown procedure
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
Added a record button
Window position no longer forced to be on screen because this wouldn't work properly on multi monitor desktops
Rebuilt the systray menu somewhat (added options for mute and recording)
screamer.xml now editable in regular notepad
Presets now autodownloaded if missing
Settings now loaded with Expat
CString is no longer being used
No longer linking MFC7.1 statically so there might be compability problems on older systems
Added the Help menu to the systray menu
Reworked thread handling
Got rid of CMarkupLite
Added warning when trying to record something that cannot be recorded