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Issue 66 added to 8BS Online Conversion

I've just updated the 8-Bit Software Magazine Online Conversion to include Issue 66.  I have also tweaked the navigation to be clearer and enable navigating from an item to its parent magazine instead of just up to the index.

Radio Downloader 0.8.2

Today I have released version 0.8.2 of Radio Downloader.  This is a bugfix release, and does not include any new features.

Most of the fixes relate to direct MP3 downloads, but there is also a fix for a crash caused by a missing My Documents folder.  For full details, check out the changelog.

Issue 65 added to 8BS Online Conversion

I've just updated the 8-Bit Software Magazine Online Conversion to include Issue 65.  Another update is a fix for the mapping of fraction characters and pipes in the converted Mode 7 pages.

Radio Downloader and Windows 7

With the release of version 0.8 yesterday, I have added Windows 7 as a supported operating system for Radio Downloader.  I've also dropped support for Windows 2000 - this doesn't mean that I will block it from working on 2000, but I won't be routinely testing it on that OS from now on.

Radio Downloader works fine on Windows 7, but due to the updated behaviour of the system tray, the icon for Radio Downloader is not displayed when the main window is closed.  A workaround for this is to right-click on the Radio Downloader icon in the taskbar when the main window is open and choose 'Pin this program to taskbar'.  This will then keep the Radio Downloader icon on the taskbar when the window is closed, and can be used to re-open the window.

I've raised a number of bugs for improving integration with Windows 7 and the new taskbar, and I hope to address these over the next few releases.

Radio Downloader 0.8

I'm pleased to announce the release of Radio Downloader 0.8.  The main feature added with this release is that BBC Radio programmes are directly downloaded as MP3 instead of Real Audio.  This requires far less CPU power, and is able to download BBC Local and Nations Radio programmes again.

The direct MP3 download does not currently support re-encoding the downloaded MP3 files to other bitrates and frequencies, so I have added a setting in the BBC Provider options to disable the direct download option for users who require this.

This release also brings a small number of other bug fixes and enhancements, which you can find in the changelog.