title: Streamtuner
text: # Streamtuner
  
  Streamtuner is a streaming media directory browser. Through the use of a C/Python plugin system, it offers a GTK+ 2.0 interface to Internet radio directories. Streamtuner does not actually play any files, it downloads a list of online radio streams and then tells the unix player (user's option) to play the selected stream. Streamtuner offers hundreds of thousands of music resources in a more common interface.
  
  Streamtuner is free software, released under the terms of the revised BSD license.
  
  There is also a version for the Nokia 770 Internet tablet.
  
  The still developed Streamtuner2 mimics Streamtuner.
  
  ## Features of Streamtuner
  
  * Browse the SHOUTcast Yellow Pages
  * Browse the Live365 directory
  * Browse the Xiph.org (aka icecast.org, aka Oddsock) directory
  * Browse the basic.ch DJ mixes
  * Manage your local music collection, with full support for ID3 and Vorbis metadata editing
  * Listen to streams (through unix player), browse their web page, or record them using programs such as Streamripper
  * Implement new directory handlers as tiny Python scripts or as dynamically loadable modules written in C
  * Retain your favourite streams by bookmarking them
  * Manually add streams to your collection
  
  ## Streamtuner in the press
  
  * UnixReview.com: Marcel's Linux App of the Month: Streamtuner (July 2005)
  * Tux Magazine: Streamtuner (July 2005)
  * Schumann, Jorg; Schnober, Carsten (June 2004), Streamtuner, Linux Magazine, pp. 84–85
  * Orange Crate: Audiophiles' Solution For Net Radio (April 2004)
  