KRadio4

KRadio is a comfortable KDE4 application for internet radio 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).

4.0.8 Release Notes

KRadio 4.0.8 is a bugfix and translation release. It fixes crashes and compatibility issues libav/libffmpeg. For details please have a look into the ChangeLog:

http://kradio.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog-4.0.8

Source code and translation packages as well as binary packages for Debian/unstable can be downloaded from the KRadio homepage:

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

Please test and give feedback about bugs but also success!

With best regards and thanks to all contributors!

Martin


FAQ: http://kradio.sourceforge.net/faq.html

Translation Status:

Czech(100%)

English(100%)

German(100%)

Islandic(46%)

Italian(100%)

Polish(3%)

Portuguese(34%)

Portuguese/Brasil(55%)

Russian(100%)

Serbian(70%)

Slovak(50%)

Spanish(54%)

Turkish(31%)

Ukrainian(100%)

KRadio4 now supports:

KDE >= 4.2

DBus Support

Internet Radio

PulseAudio Support (indirect via ALSA)

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

Your contributions are highly appreciated!

2014-09-28 (4.0.8)
- various translation updates
- libav/libffmeg crash&compatibility fixes
- sleep/standby/timer fixes
- various minor fixes.

2013-01-19 (4.0.7)
- fix for planar sound sample formats in very recent ffmpeg releases
- support for id3 tags in recording configuration
- fixed segfault in case sample format is unknown
- fixed charset/encoding of id3 tags / vorbis comments


2012-08-15 (4.0.6)
- bugfixes for playlist file .pls handling (BBC stations and further UK radio stations, see bugreport 3534405)
- support for WMV playlists (see bugreport 3534405)
- improved playlist type autodetection

2012-08-02 (4.0.5)
- bugfix for http error handling in playlist handler
- cleanup of internet radio libffmpeg/libav code
- fixed watchdog handling: it was not stopped during station change and caused accessing empty playlists, thus div/0
- removing cr/lf in ICY meta data / RDS data for running text in GUI
- fixed typo in escape sequence code for ICY meta data parsing
- fixed content-type handling for mms streams (allows now skipping slow autodetection)
- finally fixed the problem with skips and stops in internet radio stream decoding
- fixed handling of HTTP 304 (not modified) response code
- updated preset file for RioDeJaneiro/Brazil
- initial partial Slovak translation
- added watchdog for internet streams: reconnects after a configurable stall time
- visualization of disabled alarms
- endianess and sample conversion code speedup
- disabled alsa blocking usleep workaround by default and added configuration option
- updated German translation
- added config option for internet radio stations to set metadata encoding charsets
- further buffer management fixes to stop repeated skips on certain systems
- individual name for quickbar window title
- Czech translation update
- spec file updates

2012-02-18 (4.0.4)
- improved shoutcast support: fixed "Accept:" HTTP header field
- issue warning if a broken V4L2 kernel is detected
- fixed buffer alignment issue to avoid alignment-error segfault in libffmpeg sse2 code