User preferences are now stored in the application database instead of using .net settings.

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Original report from Matt Robinson at 16:59:51 on 2011-11-01

Currently, the user preferences are stored using the .net settings framework.

This works reasonably well, but it would be better if they were instead stored in the database for two reasons:

• A user upgrading from a 32- to 64-bit version of Radio Downloader will lose their settings, again (they would have previously lost them when the application was upgraded from VB.net to c#).
• It would make implementing issue #72 much easier (or perhaps even unnecessary), as then everything the user would want to keep would all be in one file.

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Imported from Bug 568 in the NerdoftheHerd.com Bugzilla.

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Original comment from Matt Robinson at 20:05:52 on 2012-01-22

Implemented in 5d6a34b by storing user settings in the existing settings table in the application database. This uses a public Settings class which is available for providers to inherit and use to store their settings (as demonstrated with the BBC Provider).