→ Feature plugins

Extra functionality and behaviour changes are available in the 🔌 Feature configuration section.

🔌 Filter Bitrate

Some channels provide lower-quality audio streams. In particular Xiph lists some awful radio stations. And this plugin helps filtering those out of station lists.

  • MP3 streams often start to sound okay at 96kbit/s.

  • Whereas OGG Vorbis or AAC are sometimes acceptable at 64kbit/s already.

Note that you may end up with empty channel lists altogether if you set these options too high. Some channels provide all their streams with 64kbit/s only.

🔌 Channel toolbar link

Adds a toolbar entry which shows the current channel/directory service title and its homepage link. Such as:

  ▶    ●    🏠     Shoutcast
play rcrd  hmpg   //shoutcast.com/

It depends on the "update window title" option being enabled.

🔌 Export all stations

There's an "Export All" plugin available. It adds an entry under Main menu ▸ Extensions ▸ Export all stations. Which allows to export all stations from the currently visible channel category.

  • This is of course intended primarily for saving your bookmarks.

  • And it allows to import radio lists into any other music player or playlist collection/management app (such as Rhythmbox).

  • You can set the desired playlist format in the file saving dialog that pops up.

🔌 RadioTray hook

This plugin enables an extra category in the bookmarks tab. It shows bookmarked stations from the RadioTray application, if that's installed. Additionally it adds an context option to save new stations from Streamtuner2 to RadioTray. The mapping option influences if added radios are recategorized in RadioTray.

Please see the Wiki for further setup instructions.

🔌 User Agent Switcher

This plugin merely masks Streamtuner2 as an ordinary web browser when retrieving station lists.

  • It's technically unneeded, as ST2 isn't stressful to directory websites and not blocked anywhere.

  • It's only useful as additional privacy feature really, but shouldn't be used habitually.

🔌 History

Provides the small "history" category in the bookmarks tab. The length of which is configurable (defaults to 20).

🔌 Links to directory services

Adds a list of weblinks to other online music services in the "links" category within the bookmarks tab.

Other feature plugins

The "search", "configwin" and "streamedit" plugins are considered built-ins and cannot be disabled.

Downloadable contrib/ feature plugins

The Plugin Manager lists other available feature plugins in the 📦 Add tab.

🔌 Soundcloud streaming

Enables playback of soundcloud.com links, which are only used in the 📻 Reddit plugin currently. Homepage links are transformed into direct MP3 streaming addresses on playback.

Depends on python-soundcloud, which you can install per pip install soundcloud.

Alternatively you could configure an external player like soundcli of course. Use the pseudo type "audio/soundcloud" for the player settings table.

🔌 dev_faulthandler

This is a pure development plugin, meant to debug ST2 crashes.

🔌 bookmarks_show_extra

Is a slim UI adaption to show the `extra` field in the bookmarks channel. This field can contain user comments, but is used per default to store the originating channel in.

🔌 new_station

Currently not working. Small plugin to provide an "Add station..." menu entry. Note that ST2 is not meant as playlist manager, which is why this isn't a built-in feature. However, it's oft-requested anyway.

🔌 tmp_clean_multiurl

Strips extra space-separate URLs from station list. (Currently only required for 📻 RadioSure channel. Later ST2 versions will likely support such entries per default again).

🔌 stop_button

Adds the toolbar button to stop streamripper/fpls - same as in streamtuner1. Has become kind of redundant due to the newer 🔌 specbuttons plugin.