<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
type="guide"
id="contrib_channels">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#channels"/>
<link type="guide" xref="pluginmanager2"/>
<link type="guide" xref="configuration#plugins"/>
<link type="guide" xref="channels#list"/>
<desc>Downloadable channel plugins</desc>
</info>
<title>→ Contrib/Extra Channels</title>
<p>Besides the standard channels, there are a few more plugins available
for download. See the <link xref="pluginmanager2">Plugin Manager</link>
and its <key>📦 Add</key> tab.</p>
<terms>
<item>
<title><p>Reddit</p></title>
<p>Reddit is a social media site. Among its various sections is a large
/r/Music subreddit group. Most of them link popular or novel Youtube
music videos, or user-produced content etc. Radioreddit.com even provides
streaming servers. This plugin can also list Soundcloud/Mixcloud/Bandcamp
links. But those would require a custom audio player. There's an extra
Soundcloud plugin however, which makes those streams readily playble.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title><p>Di.fm</p></title>
<p>"Digitally Imported" are mostly electronic music radio stations.
The freely available stations stream with 64kbit/s AAC+ only.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title><p>Radio.net</p></title>
<p>Radio.net is a European radio directory. It nicely catalogues
stations into genres as usual. The primary list is ordered by
popularity even. </p>
</item>
<item>
<title><p>Magnatune</p></title>
<p>Magnatune is an independent label for artists. It makes most
albums available for free listening with only a few intermittent
adverts. Otherwise it's a flatrate payable music discovery and
download service. </p>
</item>
<item>
<title><p>PublicRadioFan</p></title>
<p>PublicRadioFan.com hosts a huge lists of worldwide radio stations.
This plugin displays just the genre list though.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title><p>WindowsMedia</p></title>
<p>Is actually a Windows-specific streaming directory. Station entries
are converted from ASX into standard playlist formats by ST2. </p>
</item>
<item>
<title><p>Delicast</p></title>
<p>Delicast.com is another web directory of radio stations. It's
somewhat slower because playback addresses are hidden away with extra
page requests. Works reliably still. </p>
</item>
<item>
<title><p>ListenLive.eu</p></title>
<p>ListenLive is also an Europe-centric radio directory. </p>
</item>
<item>
<title><p>PunkCast</p></title>
<p>PunkCast is no longer maintained. It covered the NY music and tech
scenes, but existing recordings are still accessible mostly (some are
just weblinks howeever). This plugin is kept for nostalgic reasons;
it was available with streamtuner1 as well. </p>
</item>
<item>
<title><p>GrLittleRadioPlayer</p></title>
<p>Great Little Radio Player is another Linux desktop radio browser.
It comes with a default set of categorized stations. This plugin merely
imports that list as static directory. </p>
</item>
<item>
<title><p>Compound</p></title>
<p>The compound channel is a meta plugin. It can aggregate categories
from other channel plugins on a per-category basis. You for example
can mash Top40 or Classic genres from Shoutcast, Xiph, InternetRadio,
Tunein, etc. Which avoids switching between channel tabs somewhat. </p>
</item>
<item>
<title><p>File browser</p></title>
<p>You can also browser local files with streamtuner2 using the file
browser plugin. It must be configured with your music collection path.
It's not a default plugin, because this isn't really what Streamtuner2
is made for. There are way better local music collection managers for
Linux. It's just here for convenience, and displays files just as any
other channel list. It has no specific file management features, and
won't get any. </p>
</item>
</terms>
</page>