<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
type="guide"
id="channels">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#browsing"/>
<desc>Switching through the channel tabs, different radio directory services.</desc>
</info>
<title>Channels</title>
<p>The tabs in the main window represent the music directory
channels/services. Each lists categories and streams from a
specific radio directory/website.</p>
<media type="image" mime="image/png" src="img/channels.png">Tabs</media>
<p>If you first select a channel tab, the categories should appear or be loading.
Otherwise:</p>
<steps>
<item><p>Select a channel tab</p></item>
<item><p>Choose <guiseq><gui>Channel</gui> <gui>Reload categories...</gui></guiseq></p></item>
<item><p>Pick a category/genre from the overview, left.</p></item>
</steps>
<p>Individual channels provide different music/radio information. The table
views are mostly identical in each tab. (You could modify the <code>datamap[]</code>
in the plugin files if you wanted to adapt this.)</p>
<section id="list">
<title>Available channels</title>
</section>
<section id="homepage">
<title>Channel service homepage</title>
<p>You can dobule click the channel tab to visit the channel/directory homepage.
Alternatively there is an entry in the <gui>Channel</gui> menu.</p>
</section>
<section id="homepage">
<title>Channel menu options</title>
<terms>
<item>
<title>Homepage of directory service</title>
<p>Opens a webbrowser with the current channels website.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title>Reload</title>
<p>Updates the current category and displays fresh station lists.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title>Update favicons...</title>
<p>Starts assembling favicons for the current list of stations in the background.
To actually display the freshly loaded favicons, reselect the current category.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title>Reload category tree</title>
<p>Updates the genre list in the left category pane.
For most channels the category list is already complete, but it might
change over time. So this option often only is used for initializing streamtuner2
channels when the list is empty.</p>
</item>
</terms>
<p>The channel menu also contains a list of available channels. Select an entry to switch
into that tab.</p>
</section>
</page>