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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h2 class="title"><span class="title"><span class="key"><kbd>🔌 Feature</kbd></span> plugins and settings</span></h2></div>
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<div class="contents pagewide"><p class="p">Extra functionality and behaviour changes are available in
the <span class="key"><kbd>🔌 Feature</kbd></span> <span class="link"><a href="configuration.html" title="Configuration / Settings dialog">configuration</a></span>
section.</p></div>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h3 class="title"><span class="title">🔌 Filter Bitrate</span></h3></div>
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<p class="p">Some channels provide lower-quality audio streams. In particular
Xiph lists some awful radio stations. And this plugin helps filtering
those out of station lists.</p>
<div class="list"><div class="inner"><div class="region"><ul class="list">
<li class="list"><p class="p">MP3 streams often start to sound okay at 96kbit/s.</p></li>
<li class="list"><p class="p">Whereas OGG Vorbis or AAC are sometimes acceptable at 64kbit/s already.</p></li>
</ul></div></div></div>
<p class="p">Note that you may end up with empty channel lists
altogether if you set these options too high. Some channels provide all
their streams with 64kbit/s only.</p>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h3 class="title"><span class="title">🔌 Channel toolbar link</span></h3></div>
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<p class="p">Adds a toolbar entry which shows the current channel/directory
service title and its homepage link. Such as:</p>
<div class="code"><pre class="contents"><code><span class="span"> ▶ ● 🏠 Shoutcast</span>
play rcrd hmpg <span class="link"><a href="http://shoutcast.com/" title="http://shoutcast.com/">//shoutcast.com/</a></span>
</code></pre></div>
<p class="p">It depends on the "update window title" option being enabled.</p>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h3 class="title"><span class="title">🔌 Export all stations</span></h3></div>
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<p class="p">There's an "Export All" plugin available. It adds an entry under
<span class="guiseq"><span class="gui">Main menu</span> ▸ <span class="gui">Extensions</span> ▸ <span class="gui">Export all stations</span></span>.
Which allows to export all stations from the currently visible channel category.</p>
<div class="list"><div class="inner"><div class="region"><ul class="list">
<li class="list"><p class="p">This is of course intended primarily for saving your bookmarks.</p></li>
<li class="list"><p class="p">And it allows to import radio lists into any other music player or playlist collection/management app (such as Rhythmbox).</p></li>
<li class="list"><p class="p">You can set the desired playlist format in the file saving dialog that pops up.</p></li>
</ul></div></div></div>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h3 class="title"><span class="title">🔌 RadioTray hook</span></h3></div>
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<p class="p">This plugin enables an extra category in the <span class="key"><kbd>bookmarks</kbd></span> tab.
It shows bookmarked stations from the RadioTray application, if that's
installed. Additionally it adds a context option to save new stations
from Streamtuner2 to RadioTray. The mapping option influences if added
radios are recategorized in RadioTray.</p>
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</svg><div class="inner"><div class="region"><div class="contents"><p class="p"> Please see the Wiki for further <span class="link"><a href="http://fossil.include-once.org/streamtuner2/wiki/radiotray" title="http://fossil.include-once.org/streamtuner2/wiki/radiotray">setup instructions</a></span>.</p></div></div></div>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h3 class="title"><span class="title">🔌 User Agent Switcher</span></h3></div>
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<p class="p">This plugin merely masks Streamtuner2 as an ordinary web browser when retrieving station lists.</p>
<div class="list"><div class="inner"><div class="region"><ul class="list">
<li class="list"><p class="p"> It's technically unneeded, as ST2 isn't stressful to directory websites and not blocked anywhere. </p></li>
<li class="list"><p class="p">It's only useful as additional privacy feature really, but shouldn't be used habitually. </p></li>
</ul></div></div></div>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h3 class="title"><span class="title">🔌 History</span></h3></div>
<div class="region"><div class="contents pagewide"><p class="p">Provides the small "history" category in the bookmarks tab. The length of
which is configurable (defaults to 20).</p></div></div>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h3 class="title"><span class="title">🔌 Links to directory services</span></h3></div>
<div class="region"><div class="contents pagewide"><p class="p">Adds a list of weblinks to other online music services in the "links" category
within the bookmarks tab.</p></div></div>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h3 class="title"><span class="title">🔌 Recording options</span></h3></div>
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<p class="p">Overrides the <span class="gui"><span class="key"><kbd>●</kbd></span> record</span> button to
not start streamripper right away. Instead it prompts for additional
settings before proceeding.</p>
<p class="p">Common options are conveniently listed and saveable on a per-station
basis. Which allows to suppress stream splitting (record just one long
MP3 file), or file naming schemes.</p>
<p class="p">Additionally it supports options of following recording backends:</p>
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<li class="list"><p class="p"><span class="app">streamrippper</span> - for radio stations</p></li>
<li class="list"><p class="p"><span class="app">fPls/fIcy</span> - for radio stations</p></li>
<li class="list"><p class="p"><span class="app">youtube-dl</span> - video downloads</p></li>
<li class="list"><p class="p"><span class="app">wget</span> - plain MOD/ZIP files</p></li>
</ul></div></div></div>
<p class="p">The plugin provides config options of its own, such as a default
output directory, or how many / how detailed options to show.</p>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h2 class="title"><span class="title">Core feature plugins</span></h2></div>
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<p class="p">Following plugins are covered more in-depth in the according manual
sections:</p>
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<li class="list"><p class="p"><span class="link"><a href="dragndrop.html" title="Drag'n'drop">🔌 Drag and Drop</a></span></p></li>
<li class="list"><p class="p"><span class="link"><a href="favicon.html" title="Station favicons">🔌 Favicons</a></span></p></li>
<li class="list"><p class="p"><span class="link"><a href="global_key.html" title="Global_key">🔌 Global key shortcut</a></span></p></li>
<li class="list"><p class="p"><span class="link"><a href="timer.html" title="Timer">🔌 Timer</a></span></p></li>
<li class="list"><p class="p"><span class="link"><a href="specbuttons.html" title="Special extra/mini buttons">🔌 Specbuttons</a></span></p></li>
</ul></div></div></div>
<p class="p">The "<span class="link"><a href="search.html" title="Searching">search</a></span>",
"<span class="link"><a href="configuration.html" title="Configuration / Settings dialog">configwin</a></span>" and
"<span class="link"><a href="edit.html" title="Edit">streamedit</a></span>" plugins are considered
built-ins and cannot be disabled.</p>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h2 class="title"><span class="title">Downloadable contrib/ feature plugins</span></h2></div>
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<div class="contents pagewide"><p class="p">The <span class="link"><a href="pluginmanager2.html" title="Plugin Manager 2 - 📦 Add">Plugin Manager</a></span> lists more
downloadable feature plugins in the <span class="key"><kbd>📦 Add</kbd></span> tab.</p></div>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h4 class="subtitle"><span class="subtitle">🔌 Soundcloud streaming</span></h4></div>
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<p class="p">Enables playback of soundcloud.com links, which are only used
in the <span class="link"><a href="channel_reddit.html" title="channel_reddit">📻 Reddit</a></span> plugin currently.
Homepage links are transformed into direct MP3 streaming addresses
on playback.</p>
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</svg><div class="inner"><div class="region"><div class="contents"><p class="p">Depends on python-soundcloud, which you can install per
<span class="cmd">pip install soundcloud</span>.</p></div></div></div>
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<p class="p"> Alternatively you could configure an external player like <span class="link"><a href="http://github.com/rekado/soundCLI" title="http://github.com/rekado/soundCLI">soundcli</a></span> of course.
Use the pseudo type "audio/soundcloud" for the player settings table.</p>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h4 class="subtitle"><span class="subtitle">🔌 dev_faulthandler</span></h4></div>
<div class="region"><div class="contents pagewide"><p class="p">This is a pure development plugin, meant to debug ST2 crashes.</p></div></div>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h4 class="subtitle"><span class="subtitle">🔌 bookmarks_show_extra</span></h4></div>
<div class="region"><div class="contents pagewide"><p class="p">Is a slim UI adaption to show the `extra` field in the bookmarks
channel. This field can contain user comments, but is used per default
to store the originating channel in.</p></div></div>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h4 class="subtitle"><span class="subtitle">🔌 new_station</span></h4></div>
<div class="region"><div class="contents pagewide"><p class="p">(Still unfinished). Small plugin to provide an "Add station..."
menu entry. Note that ST2 is not meant as playlist manager, which is
why this isn't a built-in feature. However, it's oft-requested anyway.</p></div></div>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h4 class="subtitle"><span class="subtitle">🔌 tmp_clean_multiurl</span></h4></div>
<div class="region"><div class="contents pagewide"><p class="p">Strips extra space-separate URLs from station list. (Currently only
required for 📻 RadioSure channel. Later ST2 versions will likely support
such entries per default again).</p></div></div>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h4 class="subtitle"><span class="subtitle">🔌 Gtk theme setting</span></h4></div>
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<p class="p">You can set a custom theme for Streamtuner2 using the gtk_theme
plugin. It ought to list all available themes for Gtk2 or Gtk3 in
the according dropdown box. The "apply instantly" option may help
with enabling them right away.</p>
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</svg><div class="inner"><div class="region"><div class="contents"><p class="p">Take note that not all Gtk themes will work,
and some might crash streamtuner2.</p></div></div></div>
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<p class="p">If you see ST2 hang at startup, then either edit
<span class="file">settings.json</span> to remove the <span class="cmd">"theme": "..."</span>
name, or use the <span class="code"><span class="app">streamtuner2 -d gtk_theme</span></span>
start command.</p>
<p class="p">To install/enable themes just for ST2, you could create a
<span class="file">~/.config/streamtuner2/themes/</span> folder, or one below
<span class="file">/usr/share/streamtuner2/themes/</span> even.</p>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h4 class="subtitle"><span class="subtitle">🔌 stop_button</span></h4></div>
<div class="region"><div class="contents pagewide"><p class="p">Adds the toolbar button to stop streamripper/fpls - same as in
streamtuner1. Has become kind of redundant due to the newer
<span class="link"><a href="specbuttons.html" title="Special extra/mini buttons">🔌 specbuttons</a></span> plugin.</p></div></div>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h4 class="subtitle"><span class="subtitle">🔌 Config prefs</span></h4></div>
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<p class="p">Introduces three main menu entries:</p>
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<li class="list">
<div class="title title-item"><h4><span class="title"><span class="guiseq"><span class="gui">Station</span> ▸ <span class="gui">Extensions</span> ▸ <span class="gui">Config save</span></span></span></h4></div>
<p class="p">Saves the streamtuner2.json file verbatim.</p>
</li>
<li class="list">
<div class="title title-item"><h4><span class="title"><span class="guiseq"><span class="gui">Station</span> ▸ <span class="gui">Extensions</span> ▸ <span class="gui">Config restore</span></span></span></h4></div>
<p class="p">While the file dialog incorrectly says and behaves like a file
save dialog, it does in fact open and load the JSON file.</p>
</li>
<li class="list">
<div class="title title-item"><h4><span class="title"><span class="guiseq"><span class="gui">Station</span> ▸ <span class="gui">Extensions</span> ▸ <span class="gui">Config delete</span></span></span></h4></div>
<p class="p">The config reset additionally opens the settings window and
requires you to hit <span class="key"><kbd>Save</kbd></span> for confirmation. In any case
ST2 should also be restarted afterwards to unload disabled plugins.</p>
</li>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h4 class="subtitle"><span class="subtitle">🔌 Cache reset</span></h4></div>
<div class="region"><div class="contents pagewide"><p class="p">Adds a <span class="key"><kbd>Cache reset</kbd></span> button in the Options tab of
the settings window. It shows how much space all cache files of
ST2 occupy. Usually the icons take up most, while the channel/station
archive is often just 2-3 MB. Temporary m3u/pls files can also
be deleted. → Tick the parts you want to have removed before hitting
the reset button.</p></div></div>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h4 class="subtitle"><span class="subtitle">🔌 OGG Icon</span></h4></div>
<div class="region"><div class="contents pagewide"><p class="p">Introduces small state icons to make higher-quality Vorbis and
Opus stations stand out. (Not all channels provide exact format
information, so you'll mostly notice for Jamendo and Xiph.) </p></div></div>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h4 class="subtitle"><span class="subtitle">🔌 Win32/subprocess</span></h4></div>
<div class="region"><div class="contents pagewide"><p class="p">Wraps the player/application exec() method. Instead of simple
shell execution, uses the Python subprocess module or win32 API
functions. This is mostly unneeded on Linux (kills a few features
even), but avoids the cmd.exe popup and delay on Windows. Highly
experimental at the moment.</p></div></div>
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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h4 class="subtitle"><span class="subtitle">🔌 New favourite category </span></h4></div>
<div class="region"><div class="contents pagewide"><p class="p">Adds a "New favourite category..." under Station > Extensions menu,
and context menu options to copy station entries there. DND from
other channels works, if you preselect the new subcategory beforehand.
It's an afterthought/workaround for those who insist on using ST2 for
stream management.</p></div></div>
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