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, + plugins often use a regex to match text. Occasionally 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.
When enabled, keeps old station entries when - updating/reloading a category/genre. Services often forget stations or throws them out when inavailable. + updating/reloading a category/genre. Services often forget stations or throw them out when inavailable. With this option enabled, these entries are kept in streamtuner2 as strikethrough entries (often at the end of the list).
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.
After reloading (
When converting online station playlists,
streamtuner2 creates temporary files like shoutcast.11539398391891.m3u for
your audio player. It'll keep those files around in /tmp/streamtuner2 until you quit.
That speeds up switching between and reconnecting to a previous station. It's in
particular necessary when you use
Note that this is only a minor speedup, but may trip up some applications. A few channel sources don't even provide standard stream addresses and playlists. (Jamendo albums for example really need pre-conversion; no audio player can deal with such custom JSON playlists). In short: you don't normally want to enable this flag - unless you run into problems - with streamtuner2 taking too long, or when it hang by accidentially downloading streams + with streamtuner2 taking too long, or when it hangs by accidentially downloading streams itself.