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Dear KRadio Users!
Finally, KRadio4 4.0.0 has been released! About half a
year ago the porting of the original KDE3 application to
KDE4 started. Now, about 6 months, 400 subversion
repository commits and tons of fixed bugs later, KRadio4
is now ready for release.
KRadio4 brings some new features such as Internet Radio,
RDS support, DBus interfacing and Keyboard
Shortcuts. Furthermore, almost all issues known from the
KDE3 release should be fixed in KRadio4.
You can find details of the changes in the ChangeLog.
KRadio4 has been made possible last but not least due to
the extreme patient debugging of many users, due to the
continuous effort of translators with ever changing
translation strings and due to support by many others.
Thanks a lot to everyone!
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.
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:
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translations
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packaging
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documentation
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GUI enhancements (e.g. SVG icons!)
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build system improvements
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testing and bug reporting
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new plugins
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sponsoring of radio cards for feature testing
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... what ever you want to contribute!
Binary Packages are available
for Debian/sid/amd64,
Debian/sid/i386, SuSE
11.1/x86_64 and SuSE
11.1/i586. If you are looking for KRadio4
binaries for Fedora, please have a look at http://www.atrpms.net. Paulo
Roma Cavalcanti is so kind to maintain KRadio for Fedora.
Current Translation Status (svn):
| Language | Fuzzy Strings | Untranslated |
| CS | 0 | 1 |
| DE | 0 | 0 |
| ES | 33 | 710 |
| PL | 40 | 715 |
| PT | 43 | 288 |
| RU | 0 | 0 |
| UK | 0 | 0 |
Current Features:
- KDE4.2 Support
- Internet Radio Support(New in beta2!)
- DBus Support(New in beta2!)
- RDS Support(New!)
- Shortucts Support(New!)
- Per-Station Stereo/Mono forcing switch Seems that some radio cards/drivers are ignoring this setting
- Pre-Recording - no longer worry about starting
recording too late: The last <to-be-configured> seconds
before the decision are captured, too.
- Improved Timeshift playing - just press pause when you get interrupted
- Active Playback: For cards that don't use the
line-in loop the sound can be captured from a special
device and played back on the sound card
- ALSA Plugin
- support for V4L and V4L2 based radio card drivers, including PVR cards (/dev/video24)
- MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis recording (libmp3lame and libogg/libvorbis required)
- database with station preset
files, station search
- lirc support
- alarms (weekday specific if you wish), stations and volume
may be assigned, types: start/stop play, start/stop
recording
- sleep countdown functions
- docking menu, includes menu entries for preferred stations
- quickbar, toolbar with buttons for preferred stations
- icons for stations in quickbar, display, etc.
- error logging window instead of nerving messageboxes:)
- dynamic plugin library architecture, kradio is ready for new radio types
(e.g. internet radio), your own radio display, etc.
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