<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
type="guide"
id="dirble">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#channels"/>
<link type="guide" xref="channels#list"/>
<desc>Dirble.com</desc>
</info>
<title>Dirble</title>
<subtitle><link href="http://dirble.com/">//dirble.com/</link></subtitle>
<p>Dirble.com is another radio station directory, based on
user-contributed entries and automatic streaming server polling.</p>
<list>
<item><p>Provides a JSON API, which in v2 is easy to extract from.</p></item>
<item><p>Station lists contain even station homepages mostly.</p></item>
<item><p>And the channel plugin selects among the available
streaming URLs based on format (Ogg, AAC, preferred over MP3) and
maximum bitrate.</p></item>
</list>
<section>
<title>Station status indicators</title>
<p>For the dirble plugin each station entry may contain a stream
status icon. They often just represent a heuristic check or general
reachability statistic. You can usually start playback without
paying attention to the status icons: </p>
<terms>
<item>
<title>▮▮</title>
<p>Maybe currently inactive.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title>▶▶▮</title>
<p>Available stream, no recent outage.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title>◀◀</title>
<p>Unclear Status 2</p>
</item>
</terms>
</section>
<section>
<note><p>There's a hidden config option for a custom API key.
It's perhaps redundant. Should streamtuner2 -D however reveal an error,
you can configure your own account in <file>settings.json</file>.
</p></note>
</section>
</page>