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→ Contrib/Extra Channels

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Besides the standard channels, there are a few more plugins available +for download. See the Plugin Manager +and its 📦 Add tab.

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Reddit
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Reddit is a social media site. Among its various sections is a large + /r/Music subreddit group. Most of them link popular or novel Youtube + music videos, or user-produced content etc. Radioreddit.com even provides + streaming servers. This plugin can also list Soundcloud/Mixcloud/Bandcamp + links. But those would require a custom audio player. There's an extra + Soundcloud plugin however, which makes those streams readily playble.

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Di.fm
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"Digitally Imported" are mostly electronic music radio stations. + The freely available stations stream with 64kbit/s AAC+ only.

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Radio.net
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Radio.net is a European radio directory. It nicely catalogues + stations into genres as usual. The primary list is ordered by + popularity even.

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Magnatune
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Magnatune is an independent label for artists. It makes most + albums available for free listening with only a few intermittent + adverts. Otherwise it's a flatrate payable music discovery and + download service.

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PublicRadioFan
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PublicRadioFan.com hosts a huge lists of worldwide radio stations. + This plugin displays just the genre list though.

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WindowsMedia
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Is actually a Windows-specific streaming directory. Station entries + are converted from ASX into standard playlist formats by ST2.

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Delicast
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Delicast.com is another web directory of radio stations. It's + somewhat slower because playback addresses are hidden away with extra + page requests. Works reliably still.

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ListenLive.eu
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ListenLive is also an Europe-centric radio directory.

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PunkCast
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PunkCast is no longer maintained. It covered the NY music and tech + scenes, but existing recordings are still accessible mostly (some are + just weblinks howeever). This plugin is kept for nostalgic reasons; + it was available with streamtuner1 as well.

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GrLittleRadioPlayer
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Great Little Radio Player is another Linux desktop radio browser. + It comes with a default set of categorized stations. This plugin merely + imports that list as static directory.

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Compound
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The compound channel is a meta plugin. It can aggregate categories + from other channel plugins on a per-category basis. You for example + can mash Top40 or Classic genres from Shoutcast, Xiph, InternetRadio, + Tunein, etc. Which avoids switching between channel tabs somewhat.

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File browser
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You can also browser local files with streamtuner2 using the file + browser plugin. It must be configured with your music collection path. + It's not a default plugin, because this isn't really what Streamtuner2 + is made for. There are way better local music collection managers for + Linux. It's just here for convenience, and displays files just as any + other channel list. It has no specific file management features, and + won't get any.

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+ ADDED help/html/contrib_features.html Index: help/html/contrib_features.html ================================================================== --- help/html/contrib_features.html +++ help/html/contrib_features.html @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ + + + + +→ Feature plugins + + + +
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→ Feature plugins

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Extra functionality and behaviour changes are available in +the 🔌 Feature configuration +section.

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Filter Bitrate

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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.

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  • MP3 streams often start to sound okay at 96kbit/s.

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  • Whereas OGG Vorbis or AAC are sometimes acceptable at 64kbit/s already.

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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.

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Channel toolbar link

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Adds a toolbar entry which shows the current channel/directory +service title and its homepage link. Such as:

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Shoutcast
+//shoutcast.com/
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It depends on the "update window title" option being enabled.

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Export all stations

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There's an "Export All" plugin available. It adds an entry under +Main menu ▸ Extensions ▸ Export all stations. +Which allows to export all stations from the currently visible channel category.

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  • This is of course intended primarily for saving your bookmarks.

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  • And it allows to import radio lists into any other music player or playlist collection/management app (such as Rhythmbox).

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  • You can set the desired playlist format in the file saving dialog that pops up.

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RadioTray hook

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This plugin enables an extra category in the bookmarks 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.

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Please see the Wiki for further setup instructions.

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User Agent Switcher

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This plugin merely masks Streamtuner2 as an ordinary web browser when retrieving station lists.

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  • It's technically unneeded, as ST2 isn't stressful to directory websites and not blocked anywhere.

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  • It's only useful as additional privacy feature really, but shouldn't be used habitually.

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Downloadable contrib/ feature plugins

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The Plugin Manager lists further +feature pluginsand in the 📦 Add tab.

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Soundcloud streaming
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Enables playback of soundcloud.com links in the Reddit plugin. + Homepage links are transformed into direct MP3 streaming addresses + on playback. This plugin registers a "audio/soundcloud" pseudo + type. Alternatively you could use soundcli of course.

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dev_faulthandler
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This is a pure development plugin, meant to debug ST2 crashes.

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+ ADDED help/html/exportcat.html Index: help/html/exportcat.html ================================================================== --- help/html/exportcat.html +++ help/html/exportcat.html @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ + + + + +Export all stations + + + +
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Export all stations

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There's an "Export All" plugin available. It adds an entry under + Main menu ▸ Extensions ▸ Export all stations. + Which allows to export all stations from the currently visible channel category.

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This is of course intended primarily for saving your bookmarks. + And it allows to import radio lists into any other music player + or playlist collection/management app (such as Rhythmbox).

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Configuration option

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You can set the default export format in the settings dialog + F12.

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It supports all common export formats now, with .PLS being the + default.

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