Internet radio browser GUI for music/video streams from various directory services.

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<div class="region">
<div class="contents">
<p class="p">
There are various options for streamtuner2, available under <span class="guiseq"><span class="gui">Edit</span> ▸ <span class="gui">Preferences</span></span> or via <span class="key"><kbd>F12</kbd></span>.
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<p class="p"><span class="media"><span class="media media-image"><img src="img/configtabs.png" class="media media-inline" alt=""></span></span></p>
<div class="terms"><div class="inner">
<div class="title title-terms"><h2><span class="title">It's separated into different sections/tabs.</span></h2></div>
<div class="region"><dl class="terms">
<dt class="terms">🔊 Player</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Lists audio formats and the audio player applications, or recording tools below.
    It's a map of file-types to applications. Double click an entry to edit it.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">☑ Options</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Influences the display of all stream/station lists, and contains some
    behaviour and system settings.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">📻 Channel Plugins</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Every channel tab can have specific options. These are configured here.
    Also you can disable channels you don't need.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">🔌 Feature Plugins</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Another class of plugins enables internal functions, or adds extra menu
    entries, or configuration options.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">📦 Add</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">The <span class="link"><a href="pluginmanager2.html" title="Plugin Manager 2">Plugin Manager 2</a></span> adds another
    tab for updating or installing new plugins.</p></dd>
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<div class="hgroup"><h2 class="title"><span class="title">Player application settings</span></h2></div>
<div class="region"><div class="contents">
<p class="p">MIME types are categorzied identifiers for file types. <span class="var">Audio/mpeg</span> for
    example represents MP3 files, and <span class="var">audio/ogg</span> means just OGG.  And the player
    setting dialog simply associates an audio type with a playback application:</p>
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<td><p class="p">Format</p></td>
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<div class="region">
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<p class="p">
There are various options for streamtuner2, available under <span class="guiseq"><span class="gui">Edit</span> ▸ <span class="gui">Preferences</span></span> or via <span class="key"><kbd>F12</kbd></span>.
</p>
<p class="p"><span class="media"><span class="media media-image"><img src="img/configtabs.png" class="media media-inline" alt=""></span></span></p>
<div class="terms"><div class="inner">
<div class="title title-terms"><h2><span class="title">It's grouped into:</span></h2></div>
<div class="region"><dl class="terms">
<dt class="terms">🔊 Player</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Associates media formats to audio player applications or recording tools.</p></dd>

<dt class="terms">☑ Options</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Influences the display of all stream/station lists, and contains some
    behaviour and system settings.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">📻 Channel Plugins</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Allows to enable or disable channel tabs. Each can have specific
    options, which can be configured here.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">🔌 Feature Plugins</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Another class of plugins enables internal functions, or adds extra menu
    entries, or further configuration options.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">📦 Add</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">The <span class="link"><a href="pluginmanager2.html" title="Plugin Manager 2">Plugin Manager 2</a></span> adds another
    tab for updating or installing new plugins.</p></dd>
</dl></div>
</div></div>
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<div id="apps" class="sect"><div class="inner">
<div class="hgroup"><h2 class="title"><span class="title">Player application settings</span></h2></div>
<div class="region"><div class="contents">
<p class="p">MIME types are categorized identifiers for file types. <span class="var">Audio/mpeg</span> for
    example represents MP3 files, and <span class="var">audio/ogg</span> means OGG Vorbis.  And the player
    setting dialog simply associates an audio type with a playback application:</p>
<div class="table"><div class="inner"><div class="region"><table class="table">
<thead><tr>
<td><p class="p">Format</p></td>
<td style="border-left-style: solid;"><p class="p">Application</p></td>
</tr></thead>
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<td style="border-top-style: solid;"><p class="p"><span class="var">video/youtube</span></p></td>
<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><p class="p"><span class="cmd">xterm -e "youtube-dl %srv"</span></p></td>
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</table></div></div></div>
<p class="p">To define a target directory, you can often add commandline arguments to each. Also it's typically
    helpful to leave the xterm prefix on, so you can follow the processing state. (Alternatively to
    xterm there is x-terminal-emulator, or rxvt, gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal, etc.)</p>
<div class="links topiclinks"><div class="inner"><div class="region"><div class="linkdiv "><a class="linkdiv" href="recording.html" title="Recording"><span class="title">Recording</span><span class="linkdiv-dash"> — </span><span class="desc">Save radio songs as MP3 files via streamripper.</span></a></div></div></div></div>
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<div id="gui" class="sect"><div class="inner">
<div class="hgroup"><h2 class="title"><span class="title">Display/GUI options</span></h2></div>
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<td style="border-top-style: solid;"><p class="p"><span class="var">video/youtube</span></p></td>
<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><p class="p"><span class="cmd">xterm -e "youtube-dl %srv"</span></p></td>
</tr>
</table></div></div></div>
<p class="p">To define a target directory, you can often add commandline arguments to each. Also it's typically
    helpful to leave the xterm prefix on, so you can follow the processing state.</p>

<div class="links topiclinks"><div class="inner"><div class="region"><div class="linkdiv "><a class="linkdiv" href="recording.html" title="Recording"><span class="title">Recording</span><span class="linkdiv-dash"> — </span><span class="desc">Save radio songs as MP3 files via streamripper.</span></a></div></div></div></div>
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<div id="gui" class="sect"><div class="inner">
<div class="hgroup"><h2 class="title"><span class="title">Display/GUI options</span></h2></div>
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<dt class="terms">Prefer HTML traversing (PyQuery) over regex</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Some channels provide proper APIs to fetch station lists. Others are just websites that
      require scraping listings out. Most channel tabs provide two alternative methods for that.
      The DOM/HTML selection method is sometimes slower, but more reliable. As fallback streamtuner2
      plugins often use a regex to match text. Occassionally the regex method is surprisingly more exact,
      because directory services often use frightful unstructured HTML. If available, both methods
      are tried. You can influence the order with this setting, and thus speed it up.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">[<span class="input">250</span>] Limit stream number</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p"> Constraints the length of station lists per category.
      The number of stations option is not honored by all channel plugins. Often it's not possible to
      load more or fewer station entries. Some plugins have own settings (in the 'Plugins' section) even.
      For the major plugins this however limits how many scrollable entries appear in the stream lists.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">Retain deleted stations</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">When enabled, keeps old station entries when
      updating/reloading a category/genre.  Services often forget stations or throws them out when inavailable.
      With this option enabled, these entries are kept in streamtuner2 as strikethrough entries (often
      at the end of the list).</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">Update favouries from freshened URLs</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Streaming URLs in bookmarked stations get renewed on category reloads/updates. This isn't
      very reliable, as often station titles change together with the streaming URLs.</p></dd>




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<div class="terms"><div class="inner">
<div class="title title-terms"><h3><span class="title">Playlist</span></h3></div>
<div class="region"><dl class="terms">
<dt class="terms">Reuse .m3u/.pls files</dt>
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<dt class="terms">Prefer HTML traversing (PyQuery) over regex</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Some channels provide proper APIs to fetch station lists. Others are just websites that
      require scraping listings out. Most channel tabs provide two alternative methods for that.
      The DOM/HTML selection method is sometimes slower, but more reliable. As fallback streamtuner2
      plugins often use a regex to match text. Occassionally the regex method is surprisingly more exact,
      because directory services often use frightful unstructured HTML. If available, both methods
      are tried. You can influence the order with this setting, and thus speed it up.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">[<span class="input">500</span>] Limit stream number</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p"> Constraints the length of station lists per category.
      The number of stations option is not honored by all channel plugins. Often it's not possible to
      load more or fewer station entries. Some plugins have own settings (in the 'Plugins' section) even.
      For the major plugins this however limits how many scrollable entries appear in the stream lists.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">Retain deleted stations</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">When enabled, keeps old station entries when
      updating/reloading a category/genre.  Services often forget stations or throws them out when inavailable.
      With this option enabled, these entries are kept in streamtuner2 as strikethrough entries (often
      at the end of the list).</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">Update favouries from freshened URLs</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Streaming URLs in bookmarked stations get renewed on category reloads/updates. This isn't
      very reliable, as often station titles change together with the streaming URLs.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">Save station lists after updates</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">After reloading (<span class="key"><kbd>F5</kbd></span>) the updated station lists are
      autoamtically saved. For favicon updates or drag and drop events this
      only happens automatically when this option is set.</p></dd>
</dl></div>
</div></div>
<div class="terms"><div class="inner">
<div class="title title-terms"><h3><span class="title">Playlist</span></h3></div>
<div class="region"><dl class="terms">
<dt class="terms">Reuse .m3u/.pls files</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">When converting online station playlists,