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<div class="hgroup"><h1 class="title"><span class="title">Channels</span></h1></div>
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<p class="p">The tabs in the main window represent the music directory channels. Each lists
categories and streams from a specific radio directory.</p>
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<p class="p">If you first select a channel tab, the categories should appear or be loading.
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<li class="steps"><p class="p">Select a channel tab</p></li>
<li class="steps"><p class="p">Choose <span class="guiseq"><span class="gui">Channel</span> ▸ <span class="gui">Reload categories...</span></span></p></li>
<li class="steps"><p class="p">Pick a category/genre from the overview, left.</p></li>
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<p class="p">Individual channels provide different music/radio information. The table
views are however identical in each tab. You could modify the <span class="code">datamap[]</span>
in the plugin files, if you want to adapt this.</p>
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<div class="hgroup"><h2 class="title"><span class="title">Available channels</span></h2></div>
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<div class="linkdiv "><a class="linkdiv" href="bookmarks.html" title="Bookmarks"><span class="title">Bookmarks</span><span class="linkdiv-dash"> — </span><span class="desc">Collect favourites via bookmark function, entry editing and deleting.</span></a></div>
<div class="linkdiv "><a class="linkdiv" href="internet_radio_org_uk.html" title="Internet-Radio.org.uk"><span class="title">Internet-Radio.org.uk</span><span class="linkdiv-dash"> — </span><span class="desc">Large radio directory from the UK.</span></a></div>
<div class="linkdiv "><a class="linkdiv" href="jamendo.html" title="Jamendo"><span class="title">Jamendo</span><span class="linkdiv-dash"> — </span><span class="desc">Creative Commons music and artist hub.</span></a></div>
<div class="linkdiv "><a class="linkdiv" href="myoggradio.html" title="MyOggRadio"><span class="title">MyOggRadio</span><span class="linkdiv-dash"> — </span><span class="desc">Open source stream directory.</span></a></div>
<div class="linkdiv "><a class="linkdiv" href="shoutcast.html" title="Shoutcast"><span class="title">Shoutcast</span><span class="linkdiv-dash"> — </span><span class="desc">One of the bigger radio station lists.</span></a></div>
<div class="linkdiv "><a class="linkdiv" href="xiph.html" title="Xiph.org"><span class="title">Xiph.org</span><span class="linkdiv-dash"> — </span><span class="desc">ICEcast radio directory.</span></a></div>
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<div class="hgroup"><h2 class="title"><span class="title">Channel service homepage</span></h2></div>
<div class="region"><div class="contents"><p class="p">You can dobule click the channel tab to view the website of a directory services.
Alternatively there is an entry in the <span class="gui">Channel</span> menu.</p></div></div>
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<div class="hgroup"><h2 class="title"><span class="title">Channel menu options</span></h2></div>
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<dt class="terms">Homepage of directory service</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Opens a webbrowser with the current channels website.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">Reload</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Updates the current category and displays fresh station lists.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">Update favicons...</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="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></dd>
<dt class="terms">Reload category tree</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="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></dd>
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<p class="p">The channel menu also contains a list of available channels. Select an entry to switch
into that tab.</p>
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