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You probably don't often need this. But there's an +
You probably won't need this often. But there's an
Internet-Radio.com is a broad alternative to Shoutcast.
It has regained station homepages for most entries again.
Genres are similiar to Shoutcast.
Updating station list is comperatively fast.
Updating station lists is comperatively fast.
Note that this plugin has its own setting on how many Index: help/channel_radionomy.page ================================================================== --- help/channel_radionomy.page +++ help/channel_radionomy.page @@ -23,11 +23,13 @@ to autoplay advertisements, and a minimum quota of daily listeners). Radionomy is therefore pretty popular and growing.
The extraction method in streamtuner2 uses a mix of RegExp, DOM traversal, and JSON extraction, with some AJAX updating spiced - in. (It closely follows the website scheme to fetch station lists.) + in. It closely follows the website scheme to fetch station lists. + Instead of favicons smaller station logos are displayed (25px + in contrast to the usual 16px).
Xiph.org is a non-profit organization, which develops and +
Xiph.org is a non-profit organization, which maintains and promotes the OGG streaming format, and develops audio compression schemes such as Vorbis, FLAC, Opus, or the Theora video encoding - enve. It also hosts a list of ICEcast streaming stations. ICEcast + format. It also hosts a list of ICEcast streaming stations. ICEcast is their non-commercial pendant to the SHOUTcast server.
-This channel is somehwat easy to read for Streamtuner2, because the source data is already - provided as <XML> file. (Internally we're using a caching service, which pre-converts - that into JSON lists. The Xiph-org JSON API isn't really working yet).
+There are different ways for streamtuner2 to retrieve the station + lists available on dir.xiph.org. That's because this is a primary + plugin, and fallback solutions therefore important. Each fetching + mode has its own advantages and drawbacks though.
-However, it lacks some essential informations like station homepages and listener numbers.
- -Xiph also uses the .xspf format, instead of .pls stream links
+Xiph also uses the .xspf playlist format, instead of just the + more ancient Shoutcast .pls stream links.
Forbidden fruits
As new alternative, you can let ST2 directly scrape the station - lists from dir.xiph.org (like it does for other channels). This is - something which Xiph doesn't like/encourage. But the drawbacks of - their alternative offerings are too severe and user-unfriendly; - which is why there's this raw HTML extraction mode now.
The website - listings contain full station homepages and a few more extras. In - this mode we can even acceess the XSPF playlist formats directly. - And the server search function, or browsing by audio/video format is - supported. -
+ lists from dir.xiph.org (like it does for other channels). This is + something which Xiph doesn't approve of. But the drawbacks of their + alternative offerings are too severe and user-unfriendly; which is + why there's this raw HTML extraction mode now. +The website listings contain full station homepages and a few + more extras. In this mode we can even acceess the XSPF playlist + formats directly. Both, the server search function, or browsing by + audio/video format are supported.
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