A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that I had picked up RadioShark and was enjoying working with it. After a few weeks, I wouldn't give it quite a glowing recommendation.
The application has a few quirks, such as it is actually two applications, RadioShark, which handles tuning and scheduling and playback of recorded programs and RadioSharkServer, which runs in the background and handles the recording when RadioShark isn't running.
Now the problem is that the RadioShackServer (at least on my machine) will not start by itself in normal operation. You must first start RadioShark, then locate the RadioSharkServer (after which RadioShark sends a message to launch RadioSharkServer).
Once you have done this, you can quit RadioShark and the server will run in the background and make the recordings that you want. Until you shutdown or restart your machine.
Now you can probably see potential problems with this approach, such as installing a new program that requires you to restart to complete the installation. You restart, RadioSharkServer quits, and you forget to run RadioShark. As a result, you miss a program you wanted to record.
The fix is easy though, just add RadioSharkServer as one of the StartupItems when you log in. Search Mac Help (command-? in the Finder) for more information on how to do this.
Another annoyance, is that recorded programs are titled with the name of the program followed by an incrementing serial number (ie 10@10 1, 10@10 2, etc). Wouldn't it make more sense to have the title be the name followed by a timestamp?
Perhaps they didn't have time to think about these things during the year between the product announcement and its release.
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