Pretend to be an audio player (in case recording is blocked):
Whenever you leave out the
Whenever you leave out the
See the streamripper(1) man page or its FAQ for more tips.
DELETED help/channel_icast.page Index: help/channel_icast.page ================================================================== --- help/channel_icast.page +++ help/channel_icast.page @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ -iCast was a collaborative (CC-BY-SA licensed entries) radio - station directory.
- -As of May 2015 it seems to be down. Which is why the channel - plugin got removed. It's still downloadable from contrib/ in the - project repository or per Plugin Manager.
Lists audio formats and the audio player applications, or recording tools below. - It's a map of file-types to applications. Double click an entry to edit it.
+Associates media formats to audio player applications or recording tools.
Influences the display of all stream/station lists, and contains some behaviour and system settings.
Every channel tab can have specific options. These are configured here. - Also you can disable channels you don't need.
+Allows to enable or disable channel tabs. Each can have specific + options, which can be configured here.
Another class of plugins enables internal functions, or adds extra menu - entries, or configuration options.
+ entries, or further configuration options.The Plugin Manager 2 adds another tab for updating or installing new plugins.
@@ -49,12 +48,12 @@MIME types are categorzied identifiers for file types. Audio/mpeg for - example represents MP3 files, and audio/ogg means just OGG. And the player +
MIME types are categorized identifiers for file types. Audio/mpeg for + example represents MP3 files, and audio/ogg means OGG Vorbis. And the player setting dialog simply associates an audio type with a playback application:
Format | Application |
audio/mpeg | |
audio/* | |
video/youtube |
To define a target directory, you can often add commandline arguments to each. Also it's typically - helpful to leave the xterm prefix on, so you can follow the processing state. (Alternatively to - xterm there is x-terminal-emulator, or rxvt, gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal, etc.)
+ helpful to leave the xterm prefix on, so you can follow the processing state.Constraints the length of station lists per category. The number of stations option is not honored by all channel plugins. Often it's not possible to load more or fewer station entries. Some plugins have own settings (in the 'Plugins' section) even. For the major plugins this however limits how many scrollable entries appear in the stream lists.
Streaming URLs in bookmarked stations get renewed on category reloads/updates. This isn't very reliable, as often station titles change together with the streaming URLs.
After reloading (
Now it's not guaranteed to work with all applications or file managers, as X11/Gtk DND support is somewhat arcane and wonky. You may specifically have to adapt the default export format for this. Generally a XSPF or PLS file gets created for file managers. - While VLC is one of the few applications that understand direct + While VLC is one of the few applications that understands direct playlist URLs or literal M3U/PLS payloads even.
Playlist importing also works mostly. Here the action module takes care to unpack PLS, XPSF or M3U files and a few other formats. If you drag in streams/playlists from other applications, it'll usually be expanded.
+Take note that Streamtuner2 is not intended as playlist manager though. It will only accept radio streaming lists and discard local MP3/Ogg files.
+The import capabilities also allow to move a station entry
from one of the channel tabs into your bookmarks list. Simply drag
an entry over the "bookmarks" notebook tab then further along into
the favourite list. - While this also works the other way round,
it doesn't make sense to add bookmarks to Shoutcast/Xiph/etc.
Because when their lists get refreshed (
Streamtuner2  › Channel tabs » iCast was a collaborative (CC-BY-SA licensed entries) radio - station directory.
-As of May 2015 it seems to be down. Which is why the channel - plugin got removed. It's still downloadable from contrib/ in the - project repository or per Plugin Manager.