I hope the devs will fix some of the bugs and re-offer to Giveaway of the Day!
(this post os three in one)
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COMMENT 1
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This is my first internet radio program. My wife likes music, so i thought I would give it a try for her. I mostly like it a lot, but it seems it has plenty of bugs (features?) that it seems anyone should be able to find in normal quality assurance testing before releasing(??!!). Of course, I’m a bug magnet, so maybe its just me. I’m using WXP 32bit, fully patched. I’m passing these along not as complaints, but to help the devs make a better release for next time.
Before I started using favorites, I would click play from a song on the right, and it would appear in the upper left, playing and recording. I would then use the controls in the upper left to control that station. If I stopped it from recording, it would disappear. I can’t remember if stopping playing had anything to do with it or not. So I went through several songs, and genre playlists doing this. However, I noticed that sometimes stations would start recording in the lower left when the next song came on even though I was not playing or recording that station anymore (it had automatically disappeared from the upper left).
While this was going on, Sometimes, as I was clicking around other genre lists, some of the old stations (that used to be in the same slot on the right), would play instead of the current genre item I was trying to get to play. I’m wondering if this also had to do with not using the favorites / auto disappearing?
So things that seemed to prevent the above two items from reoccurring:
1. shutting down the software and starting it up again, seems to have cleared the immediate ghost problems.
2. they don’t seem to happen for stations that you mark as your favorites.
3. they don’t seem to happen if you always use the controls in the genre list on the right (instead of the controls in the upper left).
So now I think I’ve got it understood. I’m recording 4 stations, and read at gaotd comments about the don’t auto record checkbox. I went and turned that off, and then clicked to stop listening to the current station, and now I cannot listen to ANY stations, even though they all seem to be recording just fine. I figure I’m going to have to stop and restart the app again. This worked, but of course, the 4 songs I was currently recording are toast.
I’m also hoping that if I leave it running overnight, I’m not going to have a bunch of songs recorded and then deleted when I wake up in the morning. (That rumored deleting when the list gets full should be an option, devs) although this was not my understanding by reading cues from the program, just the gaotd comments. Also, I would prefer options for recycle bin or skipping the recycle bin and outright deleting. And finally, just to delete / purge fragmented songs from the list / drive. I know this can be done manually, but where’s the fun in that?
I did occasionally do things on the computer that would cause the audio I was listening to, to skip. But when I played back, it sounded like it recorded ok.
I do like the following things: the dark theme, the fact that it can record, more than one station at a time, you can listen to any one of them or a completely different one (usually; see preceding paragraph), there are about 24,000 invisible stations (nice one, “Fred”), but existing ones are already generally categorized for you (no promises they’re accurate!) and should be enough to get anyone started. I figured serious internet radioists already have a big station list that they can probably export and import(?). That would also be a nice feature for this program as well, if it is not already there. Hopefully I’ll figure out how to add other stations – doesn’t seem straightforward the first time I glanced at it.
Thanks all for your helpful inputs, and GAOTD and radioget for the neat offering.
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COMMENT 2
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Update to my previous post:
When I got up in the morning, RadioGet was sitting there doing nothing. It looks like it stopped recording shortly after I went to bed. I have no power saving options on the machine except to blank the monitor after a while. I didn’t even lock the interface overnight. Not sure what happened there. :-(
Feature request:
It would be nice if users had the option (radioget feature) to tell radioget to store music from a station in a folder of the station’s category / classification of the genre of music (and then by artist type as it is already doing). AKA – now that I have recorded music from my 4 stations, I am going to have to go back through the songs and figure out which category they go in, and reorganize them manually. (sigh).
Of course, if the user could tell radioget a separate folder for each station’s recordings, this might cover the needs of more users. Both features would make a nice “easy/auto organization” and “advanced organization” features.
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COMMENT 3
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more bug reports:
cannot resize or order by the header rows of each list. some of the data is cut off even when full screen due to this (especially traffic column)
cannot play bug is back (second observations). seems to happen when I was listening to (monitoring while recording) the top station in the favorites list (upper left) and then click to stop playing (now listening to nothing), and then trying to play another station will no longer work (even though they're still recording). closing the program completely and reopening cures this, of couse this is undesireable because it interrupts your current recordings.
more feature requests:
sometimes I find that a connection to a station failed. I click record again and it starts working fine. How about some options for reasonable automatic retries?
I hope the devs will fix some of the bugs and re-offer to Giveaway of the Day!