Index: help/contrib_channels.page ================================================================== --- help/contrib_channels.page +++ help/contrib_channels.page @@ -35,14 +35,10 @@ 📻 PublicRadioFan

PublicRadioFan.com hosts a huge lists of worldwide radio stations. This plugin displays just the genre list though.

- 📻 Liveradio.ie -

Is an Ireland-based radio station directory.

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📻 RadioSure

Station database that's readily available as CSV list. You'll currently need the tmp_clean_multiurl plugin as well, as most entries supply multiple URLs, but action.py doesn't support those currently.

@@ -90,12 +86,12 @@ vary wildly however.

📻 Compound

The compound channel is a meta plugin. It can aggregate categories - from other channel plugins on a per-category basis. You for example - can mash Top40 or Classic genres from Shoutcast, Xiph, InternetRadio, + from other channel plugins on a per-category basis. You can, for example, + mash Top40 or Classic genres from Shoutcast, Xiph, InternetRadio, Tunein, etc. Which avoids switching between channel tabs somewhat.

Index: help/html/contrib_channels.html ================================================================== --- help/html/contrib_channels.html +++ help/html/contrib_channels.html @@ -46,13 +46,10 @@

📻 PublicRadioFan

PublicRadioFan.com hosts a huge lists of worldwide radio stations. This plugin displays just the genre list though.

-

📻 Liveradio.ie

-

Is an Ireland-based radio station directory.

-

📻 RadioSure

Station database that's readily available as CSV list. You'll currently need the tmp_clean_multiurl plugin as well, as most entries supply multiple URLs, but action.py doesn't support those currently.

Index: help/html/filetypes.html ================================================================== --- help/html/filetypes.html +++ help/html/filetypes.html @@ -17,20 +17,20 @@

File types

Streamtuner2 understands different playlist formats as used by various directory services and audio players.

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+

.M3U files

M3U files are one of the simplest playlist types. They're often used by desktop audio players.

The MIME type of these files is audio/x-mpegurl and often contain just a list of URLs:

#M3U
 http://123.45.67.189:8222/
 http://123.45.67.222:7555/
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+

.PLS files

Playlist files often have the extension .pls. It's the primary station stream link format of SHOUTcast, and was popularized by WinAmp.

The MIME type of these files is audio/x-scpls and they often look like:

@@ -38,11 +38,11 @@ numberofentries=1 File1=http://123.45.67.189:8222 Title1=(#1 - 555/2000) radio station Xyz - top 100 - all the hitzez Length1=-1
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+

.JSON files

JSON is a data representation format derived from Javascript (the browser embedded programming language for websites). It's commonly used because it provides a nice balance between terse and exact data representation, while still being @@ -57,11 +57,11 @@ }, { "title": "second" } ]

It's also the basis for JSPF, the JSON variant of XSPF.

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+

.XSPF files

The Xiph foundation manages the Ogg streaming format, Vorbis and other codecs, and introduced the "XML shareable playlist format" or "XSPF" for short. They're hard to look at and not very widespread. On the upside they Index: help/html/reddit.html ================================================================== --- help/html/reddit.html +++ help/html/reddit.html @@ -25,35 +25,36 @@

Reddit

//reddit.com/r/Music

-

Reddit (AKA "the frontpage of the internet") is a social media website. -Among its various sections is a large group of music subreddits. -Most of them link popular or novel Youtube music/videos, or user-produced -content etc.

+

Reddit harbours a growing list of music-related communities. + User-contributed audio files or audio/video links can be found + across almost two hundred subreddit boards. There's always a + mix of new bands or fresh releases to be found, along with + links to all-time favourites etc.

  • Around 620 subreddits are queried. That's just a selected part - though. Most others do not see as many audio posts / or are just for - discussion and news.

    • + though. Most others do not see as many audio posts / or are just for + discussion and news.

  • Besides youtube/mp3 files, this channel may also - list Soundcloud/Mixcloud/Bandcamp links.

    • + list Soundcloud/Mixcloud/Bandcamp links.

  • Radioreddit.com - even provides streaming servers. Its categories are: main, random, - rock, metal, indie, electronic, hiphop, talk, festival.

    • + even provides streaming servers. Its categories are: main, random, + rock, metal, indie, electronic, hiphop, talk, festival.

  • Thumbnails are slightly larger (32x26) than regular favicons.

  • All entries also show poster name and user votes.

See the config options if you want to keep regular webpage posts - instead -of just showing playable content.

+ of just showing playable content.

Status icons

Station entries may contain a status icon (leftmost; where usually -the bookmarks ✩ star goes). -It's a quick indicator of what type of content is linked:

+ the bookmarks ✩ star goes). + It's a quick indicator of what type of content is linked:

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Directly playable entry (MP3, MP4, Youtube, MIDI)

▶▶

Walled garden (Soundcloud, Spotify, Bandcamp, Mixcloud) → playable

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▮▮

Walled gardens without playback handler.

📄

Just a web-link. Those are kept with the ☒ keep all option.

+

Please note that Channel ▸ Reload category + tree will retrieve a differently structured list of + subreddits from the /r/music wiki.

Configuration

There's a few options for the reddit plugin:

Index: help/html/shoutcast.html ================================================================== --- help/html/shoutcast.html +++ help/html/shoutcast.html @@ -28,11 +28,11 @@

SHOUTcast is the name of a MP3 streaming server software. It automatically collects all station lists on shoutcast.com.

  • Station entries usually provide current playing information.

    • -

  • Stream links are plain PLS files.

    • +

  • Stream links are plain PLS files.

  • Genres are subcategorized, so the main groups in the category list must be expanded to see the interesting entries.

Since being sold from AOL to Radionomy, the directory got cut down. There are no longer entries for currently played songs, and homepage links are largely gone. Hencewhy the