News

Radio Downloader 0.22

I'm pleased to announce the release of version 0.22 of Radio Downloader.

This release adds a number of new features including:

• Optional direct download of BBC Radio AAC streams without re-encoding.
• Subscriptions to 'one-off' programmes.
• Greatly enhanced cleanup options for downloads.
• The option to update existing downloads when specifying a new download location or naming template.

Radio Downloader 0.20.2

I've just released a minor update to Radio Downloader.  This fixes the most commonly reported crashes and adds a small number of minor enhancements.

For full details of the changes in this release, please check out the changelog.

Radio Downloader 0.20

I've just released version 0.20 of Radio Downloader.

The main change in this release is that the entire application and its providers have been converted from VB.net to C#.  This due to better support for C#, to enable compilation on other platforms (with Mono), and to encourage contributions (as C# is more popular).

The release also brings some small enhancements and bug fixes.  Notable among these are fixes / work-arounds for two issues with downloading episodes from the new BBC station Radio 4 Extra.  For a full list of what has changed you can check out the changelog.

Please Note: Upgrading to version 0.20 from 0.18.2 or earlier will reset any application or provider options - this is due to the switch to C#.  Your favourites, subscriptions and downloads will be unaffected.

Radio Downloader and Radio 4 Extra

Since BBC Radio 7 was re-branded to BBC Radio 4 Extra, there have been problems downloading episodes broadcast on this station in Radio Downloader.  This isn't caused by anything hard-coded within the application, but by some of the metadata that the BBC generates altering for programmes on this station.

I have fixed the main problem which was causing all downloads from Radio 4 Extra to fail with an "Unknown Error".  This fix is available in beta version 0.19, which I'm making available for the moment while I investigate the other issues.

I'll try and make another news posting at some point over the weekend when I've got a clearer idea of how easy the other issue(s) are to fix and rough timescales.

Radio Downloader 0.18.2

I've just made a bugfix release of Radio Downloader available.

This fixes the recent problems with the BBC Radio A-Z programme listing, as well as a couple of other small issues.  For full details, see the changelog.