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Screamer: Portable Internet Radio Streamer
by Lee Mathews Aug 25th 2008 at 12:00PM
While I know it's no big deal to dump a couple of gigs of music onto my 8GB flash drive, sometimes it's nice to fire up some streaming radio for a change of pace.
Screamer is available both as an installable application and as a portable executable. Go with the portable version, and you'll be able to take your presets with you wherever you can plug in your USB flash drive.
Click on presets, and Screamer will bury you under a mountain of radio streams. Browse by genre, geographical location, network, or language. Once you make a selection, its category heading will automatically be added to the bottom of the preset list for easy channel changing.
I tune in The Edge, and Screamer adds the rest of the Modern Rock category for me. Slick.
Favorite your top feeds and Screamer saves them in a simple XML file - handy for emailing your faves to a buddy, if you feel like sharing.
Recording is supported, though only on streams that provide track information. You'll still need an app like StreamRipper for recording other feeds.
Development is very active, and new streams are added frequently. You can request a specific one by visiting their forums. Screamer is freeware, Windows only.
Screamer is available both as an installable application and as a portable executable. Go with the portable version, and you'll be able to take your presets with you wherever you can plug in your USB flash drive.
Click on presets, and Screamer will bury you under a mountain of radio streams. Browse by genre, geographical location, network, or language. Once you make a selection, its category heading will automatically be added to the bottom of the preset list for easy channel changing.
I tune in The Edge, and Screamer adds the rest of the Modern Rock category for me. Slick.
Favorite your top feeds and Screamer saves them in a simple XML file - handy for emailing your faves to a buddy, if you feel like sharing.
Recording is supported, though only on streams that provide track information. You'll still need an app like StreamRipper for recording other feeds.
Development is very active, and new streams are added frequently. You can request a specific one by visiting their forums. Screamer is freeware, Windows only.
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Rebecca said 5:07PM on 8-25-2008
I found Screamer last year and thought it was a neat little program. Small, doesn't hork up a ton of memory like Pandora, and very easy recording. It's only as good as the stations that are listed (and working at the moment...and when last I used Screamer, there was about a 50% success rate with that), but for some background music and occasionally recording some new tunes, it does what it does very well.
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tadas said 4:37AM on 8-26-2008
> Recording is supported, though only on streams that provide track information.
Definitely not true, can also record stations that don't provide track information. You then just get the name you configured in the options but it records it.
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Stuart Halliday said 12:54PM on 8-26-2008
Screamer is great. But it's not been actively developed for simply ages so I just stopped using it.
But thanks for alerting me to a new bug fix version.
At last it's out of Beta!
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