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and simply means hyperlinks and web addresses like
http://www.example.org/. There is also the hipster term "URI",
which is technically more general (but superseeded by "IRI" and
"IRL" anyway). In streamtuner2 the audio streaming link often
is an URL, as is the radio station homepage of course. (ISBN or
Mailto URIs don't make much sense for either.)</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">Radio</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Plays music. Sometimes interrupted by advertisements.
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<dt class="terms">Favicons</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Favicons are small symbols for
websites. Most website should have one. (ST2 downloads
favicons either per menu command or automatically for the
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<dt class="terms">Channel</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Each tab in the main window is a "channel". It represents one
music directory service.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">Stream</dt>
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<p class="p">"stream" is a technical term which means continuosly flowing
data. MP3 radio music for example is streamed, because it's not
just a time-limited audio file, but unending (unless you stop
the player or paying your ISP).</p>
<p class="p">In streamtuner2 the terms "stream" and radio "station" are used interchangably.</p>
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<dt class="terms">Genre</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Music genres are represented as "categories" in the left
pane. Every channel groups its music stations into some
structure.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">URL</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">URL stands for "Uniform Resource Locator"
and simply refers to something retrievable hyperlinks or web addresses like
http://www.example.org/. Radio stations/streams are stored as URLs internally.
The more generic hipster term "URI" (long superseded by "IRI" anyway)
makes less sense in this context, because ISBN: or MailTo: references aren't
overly useful for such purposes.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">Radio</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Plays music. Sometimes interrupted by advertisements.
</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">Favicons</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Favicons are small symbols for
websites. Most website should have one. (ST2 downloads
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audio/mpeg, and not audio/mp3 as shown in the settings window.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">Bitrate</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Audio streams are compressed with exactness loss. This can be heard
at lower "bitrates". For MP3 files any music with less than 100 kbit/s
starts to hiss, while OGG Vorbis still sounds okay at a datarate of
e.g. 64 kbit per second. So while bitrate basically means file size per duration,
it's commonly used as quality indicator.</p></dd>
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<p class="p">Besides audio formats MP3 and OGG, there are also station/streaming link files.
These are often downloaded from the directory servers, before your music player gets activated.</p>
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<div class="linkdiv "><a class="linkdiv" href="m3u.html" title=".M3U files"><span class="title">.M3U files</span><span class="linkdiv-dash"> — </span><span class="desc">MP3-URL playlist file.</span></a></div>
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audio/mpeg, and not audio/mp3 as shown in the settings window.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">Bitrate</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Audio streams are compressed with exactness loss. This can be heard
at lower "bitrates". For MP3 files any music with less than 100 kbit/s
starts to hiss, while OGG Vorbis still sounds okay at a datarate of
e.g. 64 kbit per second. So while bitrate basically means file size per duration,
it's commonly used as quality indicator.</p></dd>
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<p class="p">Besides audio formats MP3 and OGG, there are also station/streaming link files.
These are often downloaded from the directory servers, before your music player gets activated.</p>
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<div class="linkdiv "><a class="linkdiv" href="m3u.html" title=".M3U files"><span class="title">.M3U files</span><span class="linkdiv-dash"> — </span><span class="desc">MP3-URL playlist file.</span></a></div>
<div class="linkdiv "><a class="linkdiv" href="pls.html" title=".PLS files"><span class="title">.PLS files</span><span class="linkdiv-dash"> — </span><span class="desc">Playlist file format.</span></a></div>
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