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<p class="p">Some audio players open a second instance when you actually want to switch radios.
In this case it's a common workaround to write <span class="code">pkill vlc ; vlc %u</span> instead,
which ends the previous player process and starts it anew.
For VLC there's however also the <span class="code">--one-instance</span> option, which sometimes
works better. (And sometimes not.)</p>
<p class="p">Some applications, like Rhythmbox or Banshee, are primarily playlist managers, not players,
and cannot be invoked with a play URL by other apps. This makes them less suitable for use with
streamtuner2. (Same goes for streamtuner2 of course. It's not a player, just a playlist tool.)</p>
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<p class="p">Any listed application can be invoked with a different kind of
URL or filename. Most are rather flexible, but some depend on
specific playlist file types or URLs. You can control this by adding
a placeholder after the configured application name:</p>
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<p class="p">Some audio players open a second instance when you actually want to switch radios.
In this case it's a common workaround to write <span class="code">pkill vlc ; vlc %u</span> instead,
which ends the previous player process and starts it anew.
For VLC there's however also the <span class="code">--one-instance</span> option, which sometimes
works better. (And sometimes not.)</p>
<p class="p">Some applications, like Rhythmbox or Banshee, are primarily playlist managers, not players,
and cannot be invoked with a station URL. This makes them less suitable for use with streamtuner2.
(Same goes for streamtuner2 itself. It's not a player, but just a playlist browser.)</p>
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<p class="p">Listed audio players get run with a streaming server address (URL).
These can either be direct MP3/Ogg servers (<span class="var">http://example.org:7843/</span>)
and sometimes playlist files (<span class="var">http://example.org/listen.pls</span>)
- depending on the channel directory.</p>
<p class="p">Most audio players automatically handle any station URLs. Some however
support just a few formats, or can't handle modern XSPF playlists for
instance. Which is why you can control this by adding a placeholder
after the configured application name:</p>
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<td style="border-top-style: solid;"><p class="p">%smil</p></td>
<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><p class="p"></p></td>
<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><p class="p">Standardized multimedia sequencing lists (which nobody uses either)</p></td>
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<p class="p">Preferrably use the long %abbr names for configuration.</p>
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<p class="p">Most audio players like pls, yet sometimes the
older m3u format more. Streamripper requires %srv for recording.</p>
<p class="p">Leave it to the default %pls to avoid Streamtuner2 doing unneeded
extra conversions (just delays playback).</p>
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<p class="p">Preferrably use the long %abbr names for configuration. The
default is <span class="var">%pls</span> if you leave it out. (Most directories
already provide PLS files, which avoids any extra conversion by ST2
which sometimes delay playback.)</p>
<p class="p">A few channels (like Jamendo) send custom JSON playlist snippets,
which no audio player would understand. Which is why they're always
pre-converted.</p>
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<p class="p">Most audio players like %pls, yet sometimes the
older %m3u format more. Streamripper requires %srv for recording.</p>
<p class="p">Use the newer <span class="var">%xspf</span> format if your player supports
it. This format retains the maximum of station infos (such as
homepages etc.), and thus often makes for better bookmarking directly
in your player.</p>
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