# Shoutcast

SHOUTcast is the name of a MP3 streaming server software. It automatically collects all station lists on shoutcast.com.

- Station entries usually provide current playing information.

- Stream links are plain PLS files.

- Genres are subcategorized, so the main groups in the category list must often be expanded to see the interesting entries.

## There are a few plugin options for this channel.

PyQuery parsing

  Uses an XML parser to extract station data from within HTML <tags> of the shoutcast.com site. This is slower, but often more reliable than regular expressions, which look for plain text markers.

debug output

  Prints verbose messages to the console. This option is used while developing extensions for Streamtuner2.