VLC can directly play Youtube URLs. For other players one can use youtube-dl as wrapper. For example totem $(youtube-dl %srv) as configured player command.

Of course you could also just invoke a specific YT video by opening it in your web browser - click the station home button simply.

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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).

Configuration option

You can set the default export format in the settings dialog - F12.

It supports all common export formats now, with .PLS being the - default.

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Extension Howto

Streamtuner2 is written in Python, a rather easy programming language. And it's also rather simple - to write a new channel plugin.

The basic layout of every channel plugin is as follows:

-from channels import *
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-class myplugin (ChannelPlugin):
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-    title = "MyNewChannel"
-    module = "myplugin"
-    homepage = "http://www.mymusicstation.com/"
-    categories = []
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-    def update_categories(self):
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-        self.categories = []
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-    def update_streams(self, cat, force=0):
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-        entries = []
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-        # ...
-        # get it from somewhere
-        # ...        
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-        return entries
-        
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There are some self-explanatory description fields, and two important methods. Sometimes you - don't need categories even. The update_streams() function often downloads a website, parses it - with regular expressions or PyQuery / DOM methods, and packs into into a result list.

Here entries is a list of dictionaries, with standardized entry names like "title" and "playing" - for the description, and "homepage" for a browsable link, and most importantly "url" for the - actual streaming link. Often you want to add a "genre" and "format" and "bitrate" info. But this depends - on your plugins data source, really.

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Live365

//live365.com/

Live365 is a radio broadcasting service and directory. It categorizes stations in - over 250 genres. Not all radio stations are free to listen however. It's a commercial - provider. Therefore streamtuner2 tries to filter result lists.

This channel plugin is known to break once in a while. And it can't be guaranteed - to pass working streaming URLs to audio players.

If it breaks once more, it's going to get removed. (Unless someone else sends in - a patch, of course!)

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Export all stations

Configuration option

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Extension Howto

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Live365

//live365.com/

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