I-R.org.uk is a good alternative to Shoutcast. It also lacks a channel homepage in most +
I-R.com is a good alternative to Shoutcast. It also lacks a channel homepage in most cases, but is a likewise encyclopedical directory. Genres are similiar to Shoutcast.
Note that this plugin uses its own setting for how many links to retrieve. Instead - of stream numbers, it only counts pages. This is a lazyness related bug.
Jamendo is a Creative Comments licensing oriented music distributor. It hosts audio files for individual musicians and artists. Tracks and albums can thus be downloaded free of charge. Yeah, imagine that.
-The streamtuner2 plugin for Jamendo is pretty limited at the moment. It just provides - a quick overview over top artists and most listened albums from each genre. To browse - the whole collections, better go to the Jamendo homepage or use Rhythmbox.
+The new Jamendo v3.0 is now utilized. It allows to list albums, playlists, and + individual tracks by genre. Radios are a static list.
+ +Instead of favicons, streamtuner2 can fetch album or track covers. Thus the images + are a bit larger, and retrieving them all via Channel > Load favicons... takes a while + longer.
ADDED help/channel_surfmusik.page Index: help/channel_surfmusik.page ================================================================== --- help/channel_surfmusik.page +++ help/channel_surfmusik.page @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +SurfMusic is a user-collection of + internet radios. It's grouped by genres, or locations / countries.
+ +It's both pretty large and rather quick to extract listings from. And it mostly + includes station homepage links.
+ + +The MusicTV and NewsTV sections also return results, but those are mostly + web-based video stations. Some of them are outdated links even.
+ + +The current version is German-only. The English genre titles will be added + later.
+Googles Youtube provides a quirky + JSON API that makes browsing channels and genres feasible. This beta plugin + provides a little overview, and usually retrieves recent video uploads.
+ +VLC can directly play Youtube URLs. For other players the default application + setting wraps youtube-dl, which is also + used for recording.
+ + +With the country dropdown you can predefine which mostPopular listins are returned.
+You can edit the list of YT channel names to fetch some of your favourite artists/uploaders.
+ To apply this setting, and have new categories show up in the genre pane, use
+
The tabs in the main window represent the music directory channels. Each lists
@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@
Choose Pick a category/genre from the overview, left.
Individual channels provide different music/radio information. The table
- views are however identical in each tab. You could modify the datamap[]
- in the plugin files, if you want to adapt this.
datamap[]
+ in the plugin files if you wanted to adapt this.)
Some audio players open a second instance when you actually want to switch radios.
- In this case it's a common workaround to write pkill vlc ; vlc %u instead.
- This ends the previous player and starts it anew.
pkill vlc ; vlc %u instead,
+ which ends the previous player process and starts it anew.
+ For VLC there's however also the option --one-instance, which sometimes
+ works better.
- Some applications, like Rhythmbox or Banshee, are pure GUI applications and cannot - be invoked with a play URL by other apps. This makes them unsuitable for use with +
Some applications, like Rhythmbox or Banshee, are primarily audio browsers, not players, + and cannot be invoked with a play URL by other apps. This makes them less suitable for use with streamtuner2.
Any listed application can be invoked with a different kind of URL or filename.be invoked with a play URL by other apps.
Index: help/configuration.page
==================================================================
--- help/configuration.page
+++ help/configuration.page
@@ -7,50 +7,51 @@
There are many options in streamtuner2. You can find the settings dialog in the edit menu, - preferences (last entry).
- -Lists audio formats and the applications which shall be used for playing.
-Influences the display of all stream/station lists.
-Filesystem and environment settings. Boring.
+There are multiple behaviour options in streamtuner2. + You can find the settings dialog in the edit menu as "Preferences" (last entry). +
+ +Lists audio formats and the audio player applications, or recording tools below.
+Influences the display of all stream/station lists, and contains some system settings.
Every channel tab can have specific options. These are configured here. Also you can disable channels you don't need.
+Every channel tab can have specific options. These are configured here. + Also you can disable channels you don't need.
MIME types are elaborate identifiers for file types. audio/mp3 for example represents MP3 files, and audio/ogg +
MIME types are elaborate identifiers for file types; audio/mp3 for example represents MP3 files, and audio/ogg means just OGG.
The text entry fields can hold the application name of an audio player. Often the application name - is just a lower case version of the program title, but you might have to look it up.
-Behind the application program name is a placeholder. If the audio player is invoked, this placeholder - gets replaces with an URL (a http://..-Link) of the selected radio stream.
-It's introduced by percent sign, and followed by letters. %m3u for example generates a .m3u file. Most - audio players understand that. Otherwise try %pls, which might even be faster because streamtuner2 doesn't - have to download and preprocess it. %srv instead gives a direct stream link.
-The entry for */* is a catch-all. If the audio format of a radio station isn't know, this application - gets called.
+ is just a lower case version of the program title. +Behind application names a placeholder can be used. On invocation such placeholders + get replaced with an URL (a http://..-Link) or filename for the selected radio stream.
+It's introduced by a percent sign, and followed by letters. %m3u for example generates a .m3u file, + which most audio players understand. Otherwise try %pls, which might even be faster because streamtuner2 doesn't + have to download and preprocess it. Alternatively %srv instead gives a direct stream link.
+Catch-all entries like */* or a generic audio/* entry allow to configure a default player. +
The last entry in the 'Apps' section specifies streamripper. It is used for recording stations. You - might want to add some commandline -arguments here.
+The second block of entries in the 'Apps' section specifies recording applications. + Here streamripper is preconfigured for audio streams, and youtube-dl for Youtube videos for instance. + To define a target directory, you can 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.)
It's possible to select a Gtk+ theme. But not all themes work with all Gtk display engines, and not all themes work with streamtuner2. You just have to try it.
Remembering window states makes streamtuner2 not forget which channel and category was last selected. You can however disable this option, and instead manually save the window states/layout in the edit menu, if you want.
-There are just a few options here, and some are hard-wired. Usually you don't want to change them.
Setting another temporary directory might be useful, if you want to keep the temporary .m3u cache files. They are created whenever you hit play. For archival or speed-up porposes you might want to keep them elsewhere. They don't take a lot of space.
Each channel plugin can bring its own list of configuration settings. These are collected here.
-The heading for each plugin is actually a button, which allows disabling the plugin. Alas the state - cannot be easily discerned with all themes.
+The heading for each plugin allows to enable or disable it. To apply changed states you need to restart + streamtuner2 however.
If you want to find out more about the short option descriptions (most settings are checkboxes), please have a look into the channels directory /usr/share/streamtuner2/channels/ and corresponding *.py files. These are readable, and sometimes contain more information.
There are two search functions. The quick search field is in the toolbar, and allows
- to highlight search terms in the current station list. The cache search is available
- through the
There are two search functions.
+ + +Just enter text into the quick search box atop. Streamtuner2 will instantly highlight + any matches in the current stations view. If you switch tabs, just click the glass icon + to reapply the highlighting.
+You can get to the search dialog via
Above you can check which channel plugins to inspect for the search term. Using this allows to limit the search to specific radio station directories, but usually you want @@ -25,26 +31,19 @@
Below the search phrase text box, you can specifiy which station fields to look into. Often you just want to search the titles of radio stations. But you can also have the search occour in the description/playing fields. Alternatively you could just search the homepage links.
-Lastly, there are three search methods. You mostly want to use the
The
Use the button
Just enter text into the quick search box. Streamtuner2 will instantly highlight - any matches in the current stations view. If you switch tabs, just click the glass icon - to reapply the highlighting.
+ +Use the button