Reddit harbours a growing list of music-related communities. + User-contributed audio files or audio/video links can be found + across almost two hundred subreddit boards. There's always a + mix of new bands or fresh releases to be found, along with + links to all-time favourites etc.
+ +Around 620 subreddits are queried. That's just a selected part + though. Most others do not see as many audio posts / or are just for + discussion and news.
Besides youtube/mp3 files, this channel may also + list Soundcloud/Mixcloud/Bandcamp links.
Radioreddit.com + even provides streaming servers. Its categories are: main, random, + rock, metal, indie, electronic, hiphop, talk, festival.
Thumbnails are slightly larger (32x26) than regular favicons.
All entries also show poster name and user votes.
See the config options if you want to keep regular webpage posts - instead + of just showing playable content.
+ +Station entries may contain a status icon (leftmost; where usually + the bookmarks ✩ star goes). + It's a quick indicator of what type of content is linked:
+Directly playable entry (MP3, MP4, Youtube, MIDI)
+Walled garden (Soundcloud, Spotify, Bandcamp, Mixcloud) → playable
+Walled gardens without playback handler.
+Just a web-link. Those are kept with the ☒ keep all option.
+Please note that
There's a few options for the reddit plugin:
+ +Influences how many JSON requests are made to assemble a list of + subreddit posts with playable content. (For this plugin that's + configurable, because counting streams wouldn't work as reddit + result lists vary wildly in their usable links.)
+Many music posts on reddit meanwhile point to one of Soundcloud, + Spotify, Bandcamp, Mixcloud. Those are basically just links you had + open in your browser. -- + Now those are labeled "walled gardens" here, because they're hording + user content behind a paywall/registration-wall, fiddly NIH APIs, + non-standard audio formats, web-only players and sessioning.
+There's a few players or tools for those better-known hosters. But + smaller services fall under the radar. Which is why I think it's unfair + to provide out-of-the-box support for just those four services. + -- But anyway, you can disable filtering them, if you like. And then + configure a custom player:
+Obviously you want to pipe
Besides audio/video links, some subreddits link to album art or + are just news feeds. Enable the "keep all" option to retain them. + Such entries will open in your web browser instead of an audio player, + of course.
+To utilize Soundcloud links, there's an extra url_soundcloud plugin.
+ It overrides the
Station entries usually provide current playing information.
Stream links are plain PLS files.
Stream links are plain PLS files.
Genres are subcategorized, so the main groups in the category list must be expanded to see the interesting entries.
Since being sold from AOL to Radionomy, the directory got cut down. There are no longer Index: help/glossary_files.page ================================================================== --- help/glossary_files.page +++ help/glossary_files.page @@ -10,11 +10,11 @@
Streamtuner2 understands different playlist formats as used by various directory services and audio players.
-M3U files are one of the simplest playlist types. They're often used by desktop audio players.
The MIME type of these files is
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http://123.45.67.189:8222/
http://123.45.67.222:7555/
Playlist files often have the extension
The MIME type of these files is
JSON is a data representation format derived from Javascript (the browser embedded programming language for websites). It's commonly used because it provides a nice balance between terse and exact data representation, while still being @@ -59,11 +59,11 @@ ]
It's also the basis for JSPF, the JSON variant of XSPF.
The Xiph foundation manages the Ogg streaming format, Vorbis and other codecs, and introduced the "XML shareable playlist format" or "XSPF" for short. They're hard to look at and not very widespread. On the upside they