self.playlist_asis = 0
        self.window_title = 1
        self.google_homepage = 0
        self.windows = platform.system()=="Windows"
        self.pyquery = 1
        self.debug = 0










        
    # Add plugin names and default config: options from each .meta
    def add_plugin_defaults(self, meta, name):
        pluginconf.add_plugin_defaults(self, self.plugins, meta, name)


    # look at system binaries for standard audio players

        # write
        try:
            f.write(data.encode("utf-8"))
        except TypeError as e:
            f.write(data)  # Python3 sometimes wants to write strings rather than bytes
        f.close()


    # retrieve data from config file            
    def load(self, name):
        name = name + ".json"
        file = self.dir + "/" + name
        try:
            # .gz or normal file
            if os.path.exists(file + ".gz"):
                f = gzip.open(file + ".gz", "rt")
            elif os.path.exists(file):
                f = open(file, "rt")
            else:
                return # file not found
            # decode
            r = json.load(f)
            f.close()
            return r
        except Exception as e:
            log.ERR("JSON parsing error (in "+name+")", e)
        

    # recursive dict update
    def update(self, with_new_data):
        for key,value in with_new_data.items():
            if type(value) == dict:
                self[key].update(value)
            else:
                self[key] = value
        # descends into sub-dicts instead of wiping them with subkeys


    # update old setting names
    def migrate(self):
        # 2.1.1
        if "audio/mp3" in self.play:
            self.play["audio/mpeg"] = self.play["audio/mp3"]
            del self.play["audio/mp3"]
        if self.tmp == "/tmp":
            self.tmp = "/tmp/streamtuner2"

            
    # Shortcut to `state.json` loading (currently selected categories etc.)
    def state(self, module=None, d={}):
        if not d:
            d.update(conf.load("state") or {})
        if module:
            return d.get(module, {})
        return d

         
    # check for existing filename in directory list
    def find_in_dirs(self, dirs, file):
        for d in dirs:
            if os.path.exists(d+"/"+file):
                return d+"/"+file


    # standard user account storage in ~/.netrc or less standard but contemporarily in ~/.config/netrc
    def netrc(self, varhosts=("shoutcast.com")):
        global netrc
        if not netrc:
            netrc = {}
            try:
                from netrc import netrc as parser
                try:
                     netrc = parser().hosts
                except:
                     netrc = parser(self.xdg() + "/netrc").hosts
            except:
                log.STAT("No .netrc")
        for server in varhosts:
            if server in netrc:
                return netrc[server]


    # Use config:-style definitions for argv extraction,
    # such as: { arg: -D, name: debug, type: bool }
    def init_args(self, ap):
        for opt in plugin_meta(frame=1).get("config"):
            kwargs = pluginconf.argparse_map(opt)
            if kwargs:
                #print(kwargs)
                ap.add_argument(*kwargs.pop("args"), **kwargs)
        return ap.parse_args()


    # Copy args fields into conf. dict
    def apply_args(self, args):
        self.debug = args.debug
        self.nothreads = args.nothreads
        if args.exit:
            sys.exit(1)
        for p_id in (args.disable or []):
            self.plugins[p_id] = 0
        for p_id in (args.enable or []):
            self.plugins[p_id] = 1




# Simplified print wrapper: `log.err(...)`
class log_printer(object):

    # Wrapper
    method = None

# populate global conf instance
conf = ConfigDict()
log.PROC("ConfigDict() initialized")

# tie in pluginconf.*
pluginconf.log_WARN = log.WARN
pluginconf.log_ERR = log.ERR
pluginconf.module_base = "config"
pluginconf.plugin_base = ["channels", "plugins"]#, conf.share+"/channels", conf.dir+"/plugins"]