It seems like the tool is no more. The page is down and you no longer can listen to any music. Seems like they sent every stream request to a proxy, which is now down.

However I read in the Screamer forum that there is an alternative. Check out "Radio? Sure!" (www.radiosure.com)

It's free, it's portable and IMHO it's even has more features than Screamer had.

Screamer is surely more for the ears than for the eyes - some nifty skins would be great - but alas
For the portable freaks: if you only use the english interface you don't need the language dir - if you only use the standard icons you don't need the icons dir - if you got your favourites together you don't need the presets.xml.gz file
here is what I did
chose my dirty dozen of favourite streams, checked on the original homepages for "better quality" streams, deleted the presets-file - and it's working fine (with less memory usage), I suppose the startup option "update presets" must be turned off - when I'm listening to internet radio I sure can check for new shoutcasts streams online, can't I?
PS screamer does all I need: volume normalization, recordings separated by tracks, logging the track titles and and

I thought VLC was the granddaddy of stream recording. Does this program offer anything extra?

I've been using screamer for well over a year, with very few problem. It is possible to add programs other than those in its own "presets" list, simply by opening the "file" menu, then opening the "open url" submenu and putting in any url for a streaming internet station, either by typing it in, or more easily, cutting and pasting it in.

Once it is playing you then go to the favorites menu and click on "add to favorites" nothing could be simpler.

I use this program in combination with a Griffin FM Rocket, a USB FM transmitter. I can listen to stations on my FM radio while someone else listens to other streams directly on the computer. It does take a bit of settting up (you have to disable the soundcard in the audio menu of windows, so that Screamer does not recognize it, start the program, let the first stream start to play, and then enable the soundcard again. From this point you can keep changing streams whenever you want and they will only play over the FM transmitter and nothing is heard through the soundcard....this avoids inevitable problems in one computer households)

I have been very happy with screamer. No other media player except a proprietory British Program I had called BT Voyager, allows you to select which sound device you would like to play the music through.

Sure its been a little buggy ever since I have had to start using Vista, but largely that seems to be more a problem that occurs when the internet radio streams are loading very slowly, and this tends to lock the program up, requiring a restart, but I have had exactly the same problems with WinAmp and Windows Media Player.

This is a great program to carry around on a USB drive. Or even a small MP3 player. When I have to travel, ot go on conferences with a family member, I simply take along the device, a pair of earbuds, and look for a free computer at the conference site. Then I sit back and listen to internet radio while waiting for their conference to end.

I have a number of PDA's and even a small portable internet radio, but more often than not, many wifi hotspots prevent internet radio streams from being used, but free computers at the same locations do not do this, so this comes in very handy when I cannot listen to internet radio through a wifi service.

It is hard to complain when a piece of software is free, and it seems that more people have used this software than some of the other free portable programs.

I give Screamer a major thumbs up and I frequently recommend it to people who do not want to be bothered with large and complicated programs like Real Player or WinAmp, both admirable program if you need that sort of complexity, but Screamer does fill a niche that others do not.

I've been using this for >1year - at home, at work, at friend's computers. I had little problems, it never crashed. The only problem is that favorites-file - whenever you add a stream that contains an "&" the list won't display. Otherwise great.

Hmm, not bad...I just discovered this little app and it seems to be cool, quite a life saver at work, when I don't carry my CDs or my PSP. The GUI could use some work but not really that necessary in my case, WindowBlinds beautifies it for me at home =).

I commented "Great little program, exactly what I need, many thanks to the author." last year. I wrote that comment after I'd only used Screamer for a few days. I'd like to take back that comment. I used Screamer for a few weeks and at random times, it would crash, for no apparent reason, taking with it other programs that run in background. Avoid this one.

v0.41. I've seen programs with more bugs but not many. This program got lost more times than I care to remember. When the preset list gets corrupted, the program is useless. I re-installed the program several times but finally gave up. Bottom line: Great in theory but far from ready for prime time. I will probably try again when a new version is released.

Fantastic - the version 0.41 works with bbc radio! I love this app.

There is at least one problem - Screamer fills all desktop heap
http://forums.screamer-radio.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9537
The solution is here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/126962
I set SharedSection=1024,8192,1024 and problem disappeared.

highly recommended, works just as needed, very lightweight internet radio player. I'm able to play AND record songs and it includes a play list, no need to fiddle around looking for stations.

is neccesary admin right, the list of radio is update when run the program.

By the way, I think it only saves favorites from its own list of stations. That list gets updated a lot, apparently. And all the ones I want happen to be on there.

It's impossible to understand why someone would make a comment like the one Jazzman made above. This is very good software; being a portable app makes it brilliant software; being available at a price of zero makes it some of the best code every written.

It's a shame if the developer has decided not to update it and make the interface conform to my preferences... But it's also a shame that he's not going to come over and paint my house and cook dinner for my kids and wash the car. How much do you expect to have done for free.

Giving up treasures like this is going to make it very difficult to move to a 64bit OS.

My favorites get dumped each time I close and re-open the app, anybody know how to fix this?

Works Just fine from my Usb Drive.Great Little Piece of Software.Many thanks

Screamer Radio is typical abandon ware, full of bugs, underdeveloped, has no support and the programmer has no interest to continue his work! In the meantime I just found a better product in the net.

Great little program, exactly what I need, many thanks to the author.

This little program is one of my favorites: There are a small other programs like that, but they are either too big and slow or too complicated (ie. Winamp+Streamripper)This little tool gets the job done. Adding your own favorite stations to ScreamerRadio is also no problem - and it's portable! Way to go Screamer Radio, thanks :)

Doh! You can open the 'favorites.xml' file directly from the program under File -> Edit favorites. Silly me.

Superb! Seems to handle aac+ streams just fine. You can manually edit your 'Favorites' list by opening the 'favorites.xml' file (in the root folder) in a text editor. I added aac+ versions of my favorite soma.fm streams this way (e.g., http://somafm.com/groovesalad48.pls.

Used it for 12 months plus with no problems.
This program does its job perfectly with no
hassle, respect to the author.
I have recommended this program to many friends.

Really simple. Really worked. Really great.
Thanks for this program to author

Does this work for last.fm? I would assume no, since they seem to have their own metadata streaming server thing.

Just added this to my USB flash pen. Works beautifully! A superb job.

Great software ! Excellent logiciel, traduction française et préselections des principales radios de chaque pays. OuiFM, RTL, FranceInfo, NRJ,etc...

Great software! Beats all the corresponding commercial software I have bought. Could have saved myself the money.

Great Radio & Recorder.
Start, listen and record.
Very simple to use.
I wont use winamp anymore for listening Radio,and recording streams.
Great Software :)