Station favicons
Per default you'll get a small logo / icon for any station +with a homepage link. They're automatically fetched and displayed +as soon as you play a radio entry.
+This functionality meanwhile resides in a plugin. It's available in the +🔌 Features configuration tab. +You can disable it as whole if unneeded. Most configuration options are now +collected there.
+Some channels (Jamendo or Radionomy) provide small album previews +or banners (Punkcast) even. Whereas normal favicons are just 16x16 +pixel images.
+Downloaded image files are meanwhile all sanitized (internally +converted to ensure they're really image files). +Albeit that's not strictly necessary for modern Gtk versions. (But +better safe than sorry). +Images are kept in the ~/.config/streamtuner2/icons directory. +
+Configuration options
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- Load favicons on playing +
When starting to play a station, its homepage favicon is automatically downloaded + in the background. It's even displayed right away as soon as it's there. You can + also have a whole category/genre list updated right away per menu command + Channel ▸ Update favicons....
+- Homepage googling +
When playing a station that doesn't have a homepage entry, streamtuner2 tries + to google the station title. The found URL is then used/kept as station homepage. + This isn't super exact however, so you might end up with homepages and icons + from Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook or something for generic radio station names. + (Btw, station titles like www.mymusicstation.com are automatically mapped to + homepage URLs already.)
+- Use Google favicon service +
Downloading favicons directly from station homepages can sometimes be + a little slow. Which is because it requires to inspect the homepage + itself first, and then uncovering an image resource. The Google method + instead uses http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=www.example.com + to fetch a PNG icon right away. Which is often faster. You might want to + disable this for privacy reasons though.
+- Omit placeholders +
Oftentimes the Google favicon service sends back a placeholder icon + (a blue mini globe), which doesn't look very interesting. So you might + want to disable those. (They're still downloaded, but just not saved in + the cache directory.)
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