KRadio4 snapshot-2009-03-28

[Ernst Martin Witte]

Name: KRadio4
Version: snapshot-2009-03-28
Type: KDE Sound Application
Depend: KDE 4.x
License: GPL
Homepage:
http://www.nocabal.de/~emw/kradio/index.html
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=28097

Description:
 KRadio is a comfortable  KDE4 application for
internet radio (new in beta2!) and AM/FM radio
cards supported by V4L/V4L2. It has a lot of
valuable features such as RDS decoding,
pre-recording, timeshift playback, recording (wav,
mp3, ogg), PVR support, versatile alarms, LIRC
support, and much more (see below).

Finally, the second beta of KRadio 4.0.0 is ready!
Since the previous beta, the initial port to KDE4,
a lot of significant bug fixes and new features
and plugins have been added. This KRadio release
is the first KRadio with internet radio station
and DBus support. You can find detailed
information in the ChangeLog:

 
http://kradio.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog-4.0.0-beta2

KRadio can be downloaded from:

  http://kradio.sourceforge.net/download.html

KRadio4 now supports:

* KDE >= 4.2
* DBus Support (new!)
* Internet Radio (new!)
* RDS
* Shortcuts
* Pre-Recording - no worries any more about
starting recording too late
* Timeshift playing
* V4L/V4L2 radio cards (including Line-In based
cards, PCM capturing based cards and PVR cards)
* ALSA
* MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis recording
* LIRC
* Alarms and sleep countdowns
* Dynamic plugin library architecture

Additionally, a FAQ is available on
http://kradio.sourceforge.net/faq.html which
hopefully already answers many questions. If you
have new ones, please let me know.

Anyway, there is still a lot work to do on KRadio.
There are still a lot of preset files in my email
in-box which have not yet been processed due to
the development downtime in the past. Therefore,
your help is highly appreciated! It would be an
honor to welcome you as developer, translator, or
contributor in any other sense! Here are some
ideas:

* translations
* packaging
* graphics enhancements (e.g. SVG icons!)
* build system improvements
* testing and bug reporting
* new plugins
* improved GUI design
* sponsoring of radio cards for feature testing
* ... what ever you want to contribute!

Please test and give feedback about bugs but also
success!

Have fun with the new KRadio!

Best regards,

Martin


Changelog:
 Changes since 4.0.0-beta1:

2009-03-28
- fix: included preset files that have been queued
for a quite long time
- fix: debian build system
- fix: stddisplay: rds info update on station
change
- fix: localization
- fix: completed german translation

2009-03-22
- fix: added workaround for RDS radio text (group
2a/b) not conforming to
ftp://ftp.rds.org.uk/pub/acrobat/rbds1998.pdf
- feature: added RDS block/group error rate debug
information
- fix: std-display: smoother scrolling of RDS
radio text

2009-03-17
- fix: crash during playlist download caused by
menu rebuild of docking menu
- fix: crash caused by missing wait for thread
termination
- fix: cmake fix for alsa asoundlib.h in alsa
1.0.19


2009-03-15
- feature: support for m3u, asx and pls files
- feature: support for mms:// protocol
- presets for some german internet radio streams

2009-03-14 (4.0.0-beta 2)

- fix: combo boxes for alsa sound cards switched
back to first entry periodically
- improvement: config groups for plugin instances
now named uniquely, preparation for instance
renaming
- feature: add support for renaming plugins
- fix: better unique identifiers for plugin
instances in config file
- fix: Give Sound Devices/Plugins in Combo-Boxes
of V4L Cfg etc. better names than just
AlsaSound..blah1
- fix: default names for plugins should not
contain "instance1" should be added by
pluginmanger for config only
- fix: plugin instance names should be displayed
in the config dialog below the icons in case there
are multiple instances
- fix: occasional crash on manual deleten and
insertion-after-deletion of plugin instances

2009-03-08
- fix: switch from fm to net: display does not
show station name
- fix: default capture format for alsa devices.
required for some buggy alsa implementations that
deliver radio card sound
- fix: alsa: softvolume
- fix: alsa/conf should periodically look for
changed cards
- fix: soft volume: correct mute implementation
(vol = 0 is ambigious)
- fix: if active playback: we should have an
option to mute the playback for the capture input
- help: some docu in the alsa config when the
capture format override is required
(Tooltip/What's this)
- fix: buffer sizes min/max settings in alsa
config have been broken after kde4 port
- fix: alsa buffer overrun caused stop of capture
sound data distribution and thus permanent buf
overrun and stop of playback
- fix: many issues with alsa buffer
over/underflows. alsa is now using threads
- fix: crash if recording is released from rec
menu (delete of action that called the slot)

2009-03-07

- fix: 100% cpu utilization if a "finite" file is
used for streaming input
- feature: soft volume for alsa devices



2009-03-06 snapshot-2009-03-07-r723

- fix: crash in lirc config if no .lircrc file is
present
- feature: station config now allows load/add and
load/replace
- fix: use presets standard dir for load preset
button in config dialog
- fix: replace url by name for inet stations
- fix: install dir for libs, presets, etc. should
be kradio4 instead of kradio
- fix: switch search paths to kradio4: lirc, libs,
presets
- fix: allow adding stations from preset file
- fix: potential segfault on first startup if no
plugins are found
- fix: stddisplay has broken entry in widgets
hide/show menu on first startup
- fix: Plugin Libs Dialog: KUrlRequester should
have better def directory, e.g.
$KDEDIR/libs/kradio/plugins
- fix: update spec file for opensuse 11.1
(requires videolan+packman repositories)



2009-03-04 snapshot-2009-03-05-r701
- fix: Bug 2638525 (colors of standard display
config did not work)
- feature: dbus plugin
- automatically check for new plugins on startup,
incl. "do not show again" options

2009-03-01 snapshot r694
- initial support for internet radio stations
- fix: pause does not work with internet radio
stations
- fix: recording does not work 100% with internet
radio stations
- fix: enable initial lirc_client state/mode
selection
- fix: pause also does not work for active
playback
- fix: activatstation in power-onstate fails if
old station is v4l, new station is net
- netradio: support for decoding types
(mp3/ogg/auto)
- fix: Icon for InternetRadio