Internet radio browser GUI for music/video streams from various directory services.

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<div class="contents"><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>
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<div class="hgroup"><h2 class="title"><span class="title">Filter Bitrate</span></h2></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>
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<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>
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<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"><h2 class="title"><span class="title">Channel toolbar link</span></h2></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 "><span class="span">  ▶    ●    🏠     Shoutcast</span>
play rcrd  hmpg   <span class="link"><a href="http://shoutcast.com/" title="http://shoutcast.com/">//shoutcast.com/</a></span></pre></div>
<p class="p">It depends on the "update window title" option being enabled.</p>
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<div class="hgroup"><h2 class="title"><span class="title">Export all stations</span></h2></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>
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<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>
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<div class="hgroup"><h2 class="title"><span class="title">RadioTray hook</span></h2></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 an context option to save new stations
from Streamtuner2 to RadioTray. The mapping option influences if added
radios are recategorized in RadioTray.</p>
<div class="note" title="Note"><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></div>
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<div class="hgroup"><h2 class="title"><span class="title">User Agent Switcher</span></h2></div>
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<p class="p">This plugin merely masks Streamtuner2 as an ordinary web browser when retrieving station lists.</p>
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<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>
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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>
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 "<span class="link"><a href="configuration.html" title="Configuration / Settings dialog">configwin</a></span>" and
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<div class="hgroup"><h2 class="title"><span class="title">Downloadable contrib/ feature plugins</span></h2></div>
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<p class="p">The <span class="link"><a href="pluginmanager2.html" title="Plugin Manager 2 - 📦 Add">Plugin Manager</a></span> lists other
available feature plugins in the <span class="key"><kbd>📦 Add</kbd></span> tab.</p>
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<dt class="terms">Soundcloud streaming</dt>
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<p class="p">Enables playback of soundcloud.com links in the Reddit plugin.
    Homepage links are transformed into direct MP3 streaming addresses
    on playback.</p>
<div class="note" title="Note"><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></div>
<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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<dt class="terms">dev_faulthandler</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">This is a pure development plugin, meant to debug ST2 crashes.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms">bookmarks_show_extra</dt>
<dd class="terms"><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></dd>
<dt class="terms">new_station</dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Currently not working. 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></dd>
<dt class="terms">tmp_clean_multiurl</dt>
<dd class="terms"><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></dd>
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