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<desc>Double click a station to start it in your audio player.</desc>
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<title>Playing</title>
<p>Simply double click a station entry. It starts with your configured audio player.</p>
<p>In streamtuner2 you can configure different audio players for different audio
formats (MP3 or OGG). In the <link xref="config_apps">Apps</link> section of the
<link xref="configuration">settings dialog</link>, you can associate one player
with each audio file (MIME) type. Per default this is audacious, but you can use any other
media player (like VLC).</p>
<note><p>Note however that some audio players will run multiple instances and won't
allow simple station switching. In such situations it might be sensible to write
a wrapper script, or configure special commandline arguments to your favoured audio
player (e.g. "vlc --one-instance").</p></note>
<p>It's also possible to save a station entry as .m3u or .pls file, and load this manually
in your player. You might even want to collect such .m3u files for archival / backup
purposes.</p>
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