Shoutcast

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.
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 Shoutcast channel is no longer considered a primary feature.

There are a few plugin options for this channel.

PyQuery parsing: Uses an XML parser to extract station data from within HTML <tags> of the shoutcast.com site. This is slower, but often more reliable than regular expressions, which look for plain text markers.