Audio players

On BSD/Linux systems there are a plethora of audio players. In streamtuner2 you can - configure most of them as target application. Mostly it makes sense to use a single + configure 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.

A few common applications and invocation strings to use are:

@@ -67,11 +70,12 @@ For VLC there's however also the --one-instance option, which sometimes works better. (And sometimes not.)

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.)

- + +

URL placeholders

Listed audio players get run with a streaming server address (URL). These can either be direct MP3/Ogg servers (http://example.org:7843/)