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[tazoc]

Streamtuner2 is an internet radio browser. It looks up the categorized music stations from various directory services:
* SHOUTcast
* Xiph.org
* live365
* Jamendo
* basic.ch DJ mixes
* Punkcast
* MyOggRadio (open source stream directory project)
* InternetRadio.org.uk

SFS includes Python 2.6.4, PyGtk, PyGobject

Tested on Lighthouse Pup 5.00 C, Lucid Puppy 3.01, Slackpup 0.40

First run takes longer as channel directories are downloaded. If desired channel directory is empty, close and reopen Streamtuner2.

Streamtuner2-2.0.3a.sfs 15M md5.txt (for Lucid Puppy, Slackpup or Lighthouse Pup)

[2010.07.22 Updated VLC for Lupu and Slackpup]
Vlc-1.0.6-i486b.sfs 38M md5.txt (for Lucid Puppy, Slackpup or Lighthouse Pup 5)
-TazOC

[CatDude]

Cheers Tazoc

It is working OK with my Puppy-432 using XMMS as the player.

Lately i have been looking at alternatives to the old Streamtuner,
and came across this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guayadeque/
It is supposed to be able to play shoutcast radio, i had a bash at getting it going, but failed.

Searching the forum i found not one mention of guayadeque, which i found quite surprising really.

Anyway mate, thanks again.
CatDude
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[8-bit]

Where is the exit button for VLC?
The best I have been able to do is right-click on the VLC window and select QUIT.
Also, when I try to go to a radio station web site and the connection fails, seamonkey does not shut down and I have to restart X to recover so I can use seamonkey.

[tazoc]

[Yogi]

Tazoc,

Thanks for the quick response with Streamtuner2. I downloaded it but can't mount the .sfs at bootup. I'm using Pizza Pup (puppy 2 series) and it doesn't have a menu item for a boot manager. I tried using rxvt with "filemnt" command but it would not mount. Do I need to run a newer version of Puppy just to use Streamtuner2? Also, in light of the new changes at Shoutcast, does this new Streamtuner actually play Shoutcast stations? How about just transplanting the Shoutcast plugin from Streamtuner2 into the old Streamtuner; think that might work?

I don't understand how the new Streamtuner got so bloated? Was all this necessarily caused by the new changes at Shoutcast?

Thanks

[tazoc]

[tazoc]

I updated VLC 1.0.6 in the first post for Lupu and Slackpup. They needed libEGL and for Lupu, libpng14.
-TazOC

[tasmod]

I'm using it right now in Lupu503 and it's excellent.

Any plans re streamripper, will it work with it ?

[Yogi]

Tazoc,

I'm thinking there might be an easier way for my situation. Is there any way you can "open" the Streamtuner2 shoutcast plugin and find the IP
address. The old classic Shoutcast won't connect anymore and I think they may have changed the address. If so maybe I can edit my plugin with the new IP address and be back in business. Just guessing.

Thanks

[tazoc]

[milki2]

Just wanted to chime in, as I'm the author of streamtuner2. It's somewhat more difficult to fix the older Streamtuner 0.99.99, because SHOUTcast changed its HTML format in a way which cannot be parsed line-wise anymore. And furthermore, you really need to simulate AJAX requests, else you'd only ever get 20 links per category.

Even if one were to adapt the Streamtuner1 extraction logic, it would fail half the time. Shoutcast.com now often sends varying and ambigious HTML tags. So, it's really not just a matter of changing the URLs and string comparisons.
(And that's why streamtuner2 transitions to HTML parsing with jQuery-like CSS selectors.)

However there is a way to get Streamtuner1 working again. It's just "a little" more work. The next streamtuner2 contains a CLI mode. And I've written two PHP wrapper scripts which can fake the old //yp.shoutcast.com/ layout. So, you put "127.0.0.1 yp.shoutcast.com" in your /etc/hosts. Then install the streamtuner2 CLI server and the two wrapper scripts on a local webserver. So Streamtuner 0.99 always sees the old Shoutcast HTML, but with pre-filtered data from ST2.
I should really get an award for the most silly workaround ever. But haven't thoroughly tested it yet. See 2.0.4.85.tgz.

[tazoc]

Hi milki2,
Thank you for chiming in with a much better explanation than I could give. I like Streamtuner2 both for the features and regular updates. I made some cosmetic changes to the glade interface, switched to an H2O-LHP default theme and adjusted the helper app defaults for Puppy/Lighthouse and use it regularly.

I appreciate your efforts and look forward to future releases. I think adapting St2 CL for the Streamtuner .99 is admirable though, I think that after seeing and using the St2 GUI in action, most would not feel compelled to go back to St .99. The CL workaround you describe and attached appears to have the same dependencies as St2 GUI, e.g, python, which is not in base Puppy but is in the devx.sfs development add-on.

If anyone desires I can make a PET of the St2 SFS, though at 62M uncompressed I think it is better an SFS in Lucid Pup/Slackpup/Lighthouse Pup because it keeps that 62M from being used in the pupsave personal storage file.

Again, milki2 I very much appreciate your efforts and contributions with Streamtuner2. The Linux community is fortunate to have your expertise!
-TazOC

[milki2]

Hi tazoc,

Thanks for the compliment! But really, it's my first Python and/or Gtk application. So the good looks are owed soleley to the progess of the Linux plattform and Pygtk really. (Nice theme, btw!)
And of course, if you programm something for your own needs, it's often useful for many other people too. :]

But let me give some compliments back. I didn't really like Puppy Linux of old. But Lighthouse looks so much more easy on the eyes. I'm seriously eyeing on putting it on my X40 bedbook (where Ubuntu is a bit sluggish). This seems an extremely vibrant community here, and I've already discovered a dozen cool applications I've never ever heard about... I also like the nifty MacOS-like application bundles you build here.

Anyway, made a 2.0.5 release now. But I swear I'll keep the releasing down now for a while, as it was a bit too frequent. And also it's nearing feature completeness, and I'm getting zilch bug reports. (Assuming this is mostly a good sign.)

As for the Streamtuner 0.99 workaround, yes this really isn't a general solution. It doesn't make sense to install ST1 and ST2 at the same time. However, the workaround is meant to be centrally installed as proxy webserver. It's working now, streamtuner1 is functional again (for me at least), and this was one of the original design ideas for ST2. Continuing the idea over at the other discussion...

G!

[Fishy]

I have always loved streamtuner but I have a simple question. I would like to be able to change stations without shutting down Amarok and restarting. Right now once a station is selected i.e. Blues it will continue even if I select a classical station. I have looked at the configuration settings of both Amarok (default mediaplayer) and Streamtuner2 but no bright light came on.

Obvious that I am not a multimedia person.

Puppy 4.3.2 V3

[tazoc]

Is that Amarok 1.4.10? When playing a new station in St2 > Amarok does the new station queue into the Amarok playlist? If so, you can double click on the new playlist entry to start it w/o restarting Amarok. If not, and the Amarok playlist is visible, then in St2 Preferences | Apps, change the first 3 formats from amarok %m3u to amarok -p %m3u or amarok -l %m3u. If that doesn't help, type amarok --help in a terminal see the options for the version of Amarok you have. Mine (Amarok 2.3.1b) shows -p for play, - l for load, -f next, -a append and --queue but I haven't tried them all.

By default the second format in St2 Apps, audio/ogg ends with %pls but you can experiment with that or %m3u (playlist) or %u (url)
-TazOC