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

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<p class="p">On BSD/Linux systems there are a plethora of audio players. In streamtuner2 you can
	<span class="link"><a href="configuration.html" title="Configuration / Settings dialog">configure</a></span> most of them as target application. Mostly it makes sense to use a single
	application for all audio formats. But at least the */* media type should be handled
	by a generic player, like vlc.</p>
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<p class="p">A few common applications and invocation strings to use are:</p>
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<p class="p">On BSD/Linux systems there are a plethora of audio players. In streamtuner2 you can
	<span class="link"><a href="configuration.html" title="Configuration / Settings dialog">configure</a></span> most of them as target application. Mostly it makes sense to use a single
	application for all audio formats. But at least the */* media type should be handled
	by a generic player, like vlc.</p>
<p class="p"><span class="media"><span class="media media-image"><img src="img/configapps.png" class="media media-inline" alt=""></span></span></p>
<p class="p">A few common applications and invocation strings to use are:</p>
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	which ends the previous player process and starts it anew.
        For VLC there's however also the <span class="code">--one-instance</span> option, which sometimes
        works better. (And sometimes not.)</p>
<p class="p">Some applications, like Rhythmbox or Banshee, are primarily playlist managers, not players,
        and cannot be invoked with a station URL. This makes them less suitable for use with streamtuner2.
        (Same goes for streamtuner2 itself. It's not a player, but just a playlist browser.)</p>
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<p class="p">Listed audio players get run with a streaming server address (URL).
	These can either be direct MP3/Ogg servers (<span class="var">http://example.org:7843/</span>)
	and sometimes playlist files (<span class="var">http://example.org/listen.pls</span>)
	- depending on the channel directory.</p>
<p class="p">Most audio players automatically handle any station URLs. Some however
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	which ends the previous player process and starts it anew.
        For VLC there's however also the <span class="code">--one-instance</span> option, which sometimes
        works better. (And sometimes not.)</p>
<p class="p">Some applications, like Rhythmbox or Banshee, are primarily playlist managers, not players,
        and cannot be invoked with a station URL. This makes them less suitable for use with streamtuner2.
        (Same goes for streamtuner2 itself. It's not a player, but just a playlist browser.)</p>
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<p class="p">Listed audio players get run with a streaming server address (URL).
	These can either be direct MP3/Ogg servers (<span class="var">http://example.org:7843/</span>)
	and sometimes playlist files (<span class="var">http://example.org/listen.pls</span>)
	- depending on the channel directory.</p>
<p class="p">Most audio players automatically handle any station URLs. Some however
	support just a few formats, or can't handle modern XSPF playlists for
	instance. Which is why you can control this by adding a placeholder
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<p class="p">Preferrably use the long %abbr names for configuration. The
        default is <span class="var">%pls</span> if you leave it out. (Most directories
        already provide PLS files, which avoids any extra conversion by ST2
        which sometimes delay playback.)</p>
<p class="p">A few channels (like Jamendo) send custom JSON playlist snippets,
        which no audio player would understand. Which is why they're always
        pre-converted.</p>




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<p class="p">Most audio players like %pls, yet sometimes the
	older %m3u format more.  Streamripper requires %srv for recording.</p>
<p class="p">Use the newer <span class="var">%xspf</span> format if your player supports
	it. This format retains the maximum of station infos (such as
	homepages etc.), and thus often makes for better bookmarking directly
	in your player.</p>
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<div class="hgroup"><h2 class="title"><span class="title">Other placeholders</span></h2></div>
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<p class="p">In addition to stream URL + type placeholders (<span class="var">%r</span>, <span class="var">%x</span>, 
	<span class="var">%pls</span>, <span class="var">%m3u</span>, etc),	you can also pass station
	info placeholders. These contain the stream information like title or
	bitrate, or any other internal field:</p>
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<p class="p">Preferrably use the long %abbr names for configuration. The
        default is <span class="var">%pls</span> if you leave it out. (Most directories
        already provide PLS files, which avoids any extra conversion by ST2
        which sometimes delay playback.)</p>
<p class="p">A few channels (like Jamendo) send custom JSON playlist snippets,
        which no audio player would understand. Which is why they're always
        pre-converted.</p>
<div class="note" title="Note">
<svg width="24" height="24" version="1.1">
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<p class="p">Most audio players like %pls, yet sometimes the
	older %m3u format more.  Streamripper requires %srv for recording.</p>
<p class="p">Use the newer <span class="var">%xspf</span> format if your player supports
	it. This format retains the maximum of station infos (such as
	homepages etc.), and thus often makes for better bookmarking directly
	in your player.</p>
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<p class="p">In addition to stream URL + type placeholders (<span class="var">%r</span>, <span class="var">%x</span>, 
	<span class="var">%pls</span>, <span class="var">%m3u</span>, etc),	you can also pass station
	info placeholders. These contain the stream information like title or
	bitrate, or any other internal field:</p>
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<td style="border-top-style: solid;"><p class="p">%favourite</p></td>
<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><p class="p">$favourite</p></td>
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<p class="p">Not all fields are used in all channels. Sometimes they're repurposed (like <span class="var">playing</span>
	often doubles as Location: field). And some channels may even use custom internal names.</p>




<div class="note" title="Note"><div class="inner"><div class="region"><div class="contents"><p class="p">You often want to use such placeholders if you have a player or recording shell script, such as
	<span class="link"><a href="http://fossil.include-once.org/streamtuner2/artifact/51b695f41d9f9ad2" title="http://fossil.include-once.org/streamtuner2/artifact/51b695f41d9f9ad2"><span class="file">contrib/cmdline/streamripper_addgenre</span></a></span>
	to handle them. Or if you define a <span class="link"><a href="specbuttons.html" title="Special extra/mini buttons">mini-toolbar specbutton</a></span>
	with custom commands.</p></div></div></div></div>
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<div class="hgroup"><h2 class="title"><span class="title">Other players</span></h2></div>
<div class="region"><div class="contents">
<p class="p">Here a few other configuration examples for other
players/backends.</p>
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<dt class="terms">MPD</dt>
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<p class="p">
       Rocus van Oosten <span class="link"><a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/streamtuner2/discussion/1173108/thread/82b6be86/" title="https://sourceforge.net/p/streamtuner2/discussion/1173108/thread/82b6be86/">recommends</a></span>
       following wrapper script to start playing radio streams via MPD right away:
    </p>
<div class="code"><pre class="contents ">MPD_HOST='10.0.0.222' # or your MPD host
export MPD_HOST
mpc clear
mpc load $1
mpc play</pre></div>
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	Save it as <span class="file">mpc-pls</span> script and configure it in streamtuner as
	<span class="cmd">mpc-pls %pls</span> for example. You can find an extended
	version in the <span class="file">contrib/cmdline/</span> directory.
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<p class="p">There's a few things you have to take care of when configuring players
and recording apps on Windows. Common applications and settings would be:</p>
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<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><p class="p"><span class="cmd">wmplayer.exe %asx</span></p></td>
<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><div class="note note-bug" title="Bug"><div class="inner"><div class="region"><div class="contents"><p class="p">Windows media player doesn't understand PLS or M3U files.</p></div></div></div></div></td>











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<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><p class="p"><span class="cmd">C:\Programs\VLC\vlc.exe %srv</span></p></td>
<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><div class="note" title="Note"><div class="inner"><div class="region"><div class="contents"><p class="p">VLC pretty much works alike on Windows.</p></div></div></div></div></td>





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<td style="border-top-style: solid;"><p class="p"><span class="app">url/http</span></p></td>
<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><p class="p"><span class="cmd">"C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe" %url</span></p></td>
<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><div class="note" title="Note"><div class="inner"><div class="region"><div class="contents"><p class="p">It's best to enclose paths with spaces in quotes.</p></div></div></div></div></td>





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<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><p class="p"><span class="cmd">iexplore.exe %url</span></p></td>
<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><div class="note" title="Note"><div class="inner"><div class="region"><div class="contents"><p class="p">IE is not recommended, of course.</p></div></div></div></div></td>





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<td style="border-top-style: solid;"><p class="p"><span class="app">audio/*</span></p></td>
<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><p class="p"><span class="cmd">/D "C:\Programs\Streamripper" streamripper.exe %srv</span></p></td>
<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><div class="note note-bug" title="Bug"><div class="inner"><div class="region"><div class="contents"><p class="p">Command line programs need the /D switch first, then its path enclosed in quotes and a space before the program.</p></div></div></div></div></td>











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<p class="p">You can avoid a few issues: if you put your executables in paths without
spaces, or set the system $PATH variable accordingly.</p>




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<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><p class="p">$favourite</p></td>
<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><p class="p">If bookmarked</p></td>
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<p class="p">Not all fields are used in all channels. Sometimes they're repurposed (like <span class="var">playing</span>
	often doubles as Location: field). And some channels may even use custom internal names.</p>
<div class="note" title="Note">
<svg width="24" height="24" version="1.1">
 <path class="yelp-svg-fill" d="m4 3h16c0.554 0 1 0.446 1 1v11h-6v6h-11c-0.554 0-1-0.446-1-1v-16c0-0.554 0.446-1 1-1z"></path>
 <path class="yelp-svg-fill" d="m17 16h4l-5 5v-4c0-0.554 0.446-1 1-1z"></path>
</svg><div class="inner"><div class="region"><div class="contents"><p class="p">You often want to use such placeholders if you have a player or recording shell script, such as
	<span class="link"><a href="http://fossil.include-once.org/streamtuner2/artifact/51b695f41d9f9ad2" title="http://fossil.include-once.org/streamtuner2/artifact/51b695f41d9f9ad2"><span class="file">contrib/cmdline/streamripper_addgenre</span></a></span>
	to handle them. Or if you define a <span class="link"><a href="specbuttons.html" title="Special extra/mini buttons">mini-toolbar specbutton</a></span>
	with custom commands.</p></div></div></div>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h2 class="title"><span class="title">Other players</span></h2></div>
<div class="region"><div class="contents pagewide">
<p class="p">Here a few other configuration examples for other
players/backends.</p>
<div class="terms"><div class="inner"><div class="region"><dl class="terms">
<dt class="terms">MPD</dt>
<dd class="terms">
<p class="p">
       Rocus van Oosten <span class="link"><a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/streamtuner2/discussion/1173108/thread/82b6be86/" title="https://sourceforge.net/p/streamtuner2/discussion/1173108/thread/82b6be86/">recommends</a></span>
       following wrapper script to start playing radio streams via MPD right away:
    </p>
<div class="code"><pre class="contents"><code>MPD_HOST='10.0.0.222' # or your MPD host
export MPD_HOST
mpc clear
mpc load $1
mpc play</code></pre></div>
<p class="p">
	Save it as <span class="file">mpc-pls</span> script and configure it in streamtuner as
	<span class="cmd">mpc-pls %pls</span> for example. You can find an extended
	version in the <span class="file">contrib/cmdline/</span> directory.
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h2 class="title"><span class="title">Windows config</span></h2></div>
<div class="region"><div class="contents pagewide">
<p class="p">There's a few things you have to take care of when configuring players
and recording apps on Windows. Common applications and settings would be:</p>
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<td style="border-top-style: solid;"><p class="p"><span class="app">audio/mpeg</span></p></td>
<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><p class="p"><span class="cmd">wmplayer.exe %asx</span></p></td>
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<td style="border-top-style: solid;"><p class="p"><span class="app">video/*</span></p></td>
<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><p class="p"><span class="cmd">C:\Programs\VLC\vlc.exe %srv</span></p></td>
<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><div class="note" title="Note">
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</svg><div class="inner"><div class="region"><div class="contents"><p class="p">VLC pretty much works alike on Windows.</p></div></div></div>
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<td style="border-top-style: solid;"><p class="p"><span class="app">url/http</span></p></td>
<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><p class="p"><span class="cmd">"C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe" %url</span></p></td>
<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><div class="note" title="Note">
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</svg><div class="inner"><div class="region"><div class="contents"><p class="p">It's best to enclose paths with spaces in quotes.</p></div></div></div>
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<td style="border-top-style: solid;"><p class="p"><span class="app">url/http</span></p></td>
<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><p class="p"><span class="cmd">iexplore.exe %url</span></p></td>
<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><div class="note" title="Note">
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</svg><div class="inner"><div class="region"><div class="contents"><p class="p">IE is not recommended, of course.</p></div></div></div>
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<td style="border-top-style: solid;"><p class="p"><span class="app">audio/*</span></p></td>
<td style="border-top-style: solid;border-left-style: solid;"><p class="p"><span class="cmd">/D "C:\Programs\Streamripper" streamripper.exe %srv</span></p></td>
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</svg><div class="inner"><div class="region"><div class="contents"><p class="p">Command line programs need the /D switch first, then its path enclosed in quotes and a space before the program.</p></div></div></div>
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<p class="p">You can avoid a few issues: if you put your executables in paths without
spaces, or set the system $PATH variable accordingly.</p>
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</svg><div class="inner"><div class="region"><div class="contents"><p class="p">As reported by Oliver in the sourceforge Discussion
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