AmaRadio 2.07 is available for download.  This build should sort out the issues which were reported in version 2.06.  Please let us know how this goes.

I’ve published a few graphs showing which radio stations AmaRadio users listen to the most frequently, over on my blog. Very interesting indeed…!

Happy 2009 everyone!  Yes, I know I’m 17 days late in saying that, but better late than never…

I’m currently sitting at my favourite coffee shop in Somerset West, where I’ve just had a conversation with an AmaRadio user!  He told me how much he likes the software, and how someone at his work introduced him to it.  How cool is that hey!?

Anyway, he asked if I’ve add a little area to the main screen showing how much bandwidth AmaRadio is using.  Great idea!  I’ll see what I can do…

This got me thinking about what else could be done to improve AmaRadio…  Here are some of my ideas…

1.  I need to visit / update / maintain this website more frequently.

2. I still want to somehow find a way to make it easier to find stuff to listen to.  AmaRadio can now play over 50 radio stations, but I still tend to only listen to 3 of them.

3. I don’t like the way that AmaRadio minimizes to the system tray.  It’s confusing.  I don’t know who designed that!

4. The user interface is starting to feel old.  Time for a change I think.

5. The recording functionality still isn’t bulletproof.  About 5% of our users still experience problems with recording radio streams.

6. The scheduler was a really cool idea (thanks Gary!), but was never really finished off properly.  This needs to be nailed down.

So those are my “New Years Resolutions” for AmaRadio.  Feel free to add to this list…

More to come…

Stay cool, and spread the lurv…….

Gary.

AmaRadio is coming along nicely. We now have lots of users (not as many as I’d like – hint, hint), lots of supported radio stations (54 as of today), and lots of useful features. Cool.

54 radio stations. All accessible by simply clicking an AmaRadio button. Awesome. Except for the fact that I have absolutely no idea what’s playing on those 54 radio stations, and I have no desire to channel surf in order to find out.

As a great band once said, “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate”. Deep.

I’m still not sure how we’re going to solve this problem, but I thought that I’d start by tackling three of the biggest stations, and three of the smallest, rather than all 54 at once. I’ve added links to some of these stations’ lineups on the AmaRadio Station’s Page, and I’ll be trying to figure out how we can consolidate (and hopefully expand on) the current, scattered, lineup information.

Watch this space…