Screamer Radio

What's new in this version:

Screamer Radio 1.8242 (2022-07-26)
Fixed:
- Fix URL not being updated when changing stream

Other changes:
- The optional Google Analytics tracking has been completely removed
- The list of licenses has been updated


Screamer Radio 1.7265 (2022-07-17)
New features:
- Show album art provided by Shoutcast stream (try Soma FM for instance)
- Added setting to always show station list on startup
- Added option to copy album image URL

Improvements:
- Improved how Screamer connects to stations, AAC+ streams connect faster
- Improved keyboard navigation using tab, should be much more usable
- Improved stream log making it more consistent
- Improved add/edit station dialog, now using proper input validation
- Now using high quality album art scaling which looks better on high DPI screens
- Small album art images are cached in settings and restored when restarting to avoid a network request
- Improved perceived performance when interacting with search results and clicking tags
- Improved startup performance by loading more settings asynchronously
- Improved performance in various other ways
- Added 256x256 icon sizes

Other changes:
- Updated to .NET Framework v4.7.2
- Updated to BASS v2.4.16.1
- Replaced BASS.NET with ManagedBass
- Replaced Caliburn Micro with MVVM Toolkit
- Removed last traces of Windows Forms, now using WPF for everything, even system tray icon
- Code signing certificate is replaced, the old one expired
- Modernized code base in many ways
- Massive internal refactorings to make the code more well structured

Bug fixes from preview channel:
- Fix failures to connect to streams because of duplicate header values
- Tray notification did not handle empty titles
- Copying text to clipboard using WPF API requires retries
- Connecting to stations could block the UI thread


Screamer Radio 1.0 (2019-11-22)
Changes:
- Show warning for users with old .NET Framework versions, upcoming releases will require .NET Framework 4.7.2 or newer

Bug fixes:
- Fixed bug affecting notifications in application
- Fixed bugs when importing stations with no website URLs

Other:
- Added more internal error handling to prevent crashes
- Some internal improvements
- WIll now automatically check for upgrades at most once per day, not every startup


Screamer Radio 1.0 (2019-10-07)
- Fixed an issue that could cause the program to crash when clicking the tabs


Screamer Radio 1.0 (2019-10-06)
New features:
- Added always on top toggle to view menu
- Added output device selection to audio menu
- Added visualization frequency setting, can now also be turned off
- Prevent computer from sleeping while playing (can be changed in settings)

Changes:
- Better grouping of settings in settings tab
- Moved settings to view menu
- Moved view menu next to help menu

Improvements:
- Improved scroll bars, they now behave like normal scroll bars
- Level visualization rewritten from scratch, should use much less processing power
- Better looking drop down boxes

Other:
- Removed 32-bit restriction, will run as a 64-bit process on 64-bit systems
- Some minor performance improvements


Screamer Radio 1.0 (2019-02-04)
New features:
- Add "Center window" menu option to system tray menu
- Automatically center the window if it starts up off screen

Improvements:
- Change of output device no longer requires stopping playback
- Default output device will automatically switch when the system device setting changes
- Window centering should now work on high DPI screens
- Improve how browsers are launched when clicking links

Bug fixes:
- Fix race condition when closing
- Fix internal exception when reading stream metadata
- Fix crash bug in about tab

Other:
- Upgrade BASS to version 2.4.14


Screamer Radio 1.0 (2018-10-01)
Minor tweaks:
- Restore volume on restart even if the last played station can not be loaded
- More detailed error messages when sound subsystem fails

Other:
- Internal component updates and code improvements


Screamer Radio 1.0 (2018-09-21)
Bug fixes:
- Fixed issue when loading history on startup
- Fixed startup deadlock issue

Other:
- Will no longer wait forever to read/write files


Screamer Radio 1.0 (2018-09-01)
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a few internal bugs caused by race conditions
- Playback was not stopped when desktop was locked
- Connect to random crashed when station list was empty

Other:
- Refactored file I/O with improved locking mechanism
- Some other internal refactorings
- Removed some legacy ClickOnce code
- Remove .NET assembly signing, code signing is enough
- Upgraded dependencies