<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
type="guide"
id="xiph">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#channels"/>
<link type="guide" xref="channels#list"/>
<link type="guide" xref="configuration#plugins"/>
<desc>ICEcast radio directory.</desc>
</info>
<title>Xiph.org</title>
<p>Xiph.org is a non-profit organization, which develops and promotes the OGG audio format.
It also hosts a list of ICEcast streaming stations (ICEcast is the non-commercial pendant
to the SHOUTcast server.)</p>
<p>This channel is especially easy to read by Streamtuner2, because the source data is already
provided as <XML> file. However, it lacks some essential informations like station
homepages and listener numbers.</p>
<p>Xiph also uses the .xspf format, instead of .pls stream links</p>
<terms>
<title>Channel options.</title>
<item>
<title><code>Filter by minimum bitrate</code></title>
<p>The bitrate of an audio stream determines the music quality. Many Xiph streams have simple
and low quality microphone sources. To filter these out, and only leave high quality music
stations, you can therefore set this option. OGG starts to sound good with 128 kbit/s (whereas
MP3 often requires 192 at least).</p>
</item>
</terms>
</page>