# Dirble

## //dirble.com/

Dirble.com is another radio station directory, based on user-contributed entries and automatic streaming server polling.

- Provides a JSON API, which in v2 is easy to extract from.

- Station lists contain even station homepages mostly.

- And the channel plugin selects among the available streaming URLs based on format (Ogg, AAC, preferred over MP3) and maximum bitrate.

### Station status indicators

For the dirble plugin each station entry may contain a stream status icon. They often just represent a heuristic check or general reachability statistic. You can usually start playback without paying attention to the status icons:

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  Maybe currently inactive.

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  Available stream, no recent outage.

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  Unclear Status 2

There's a hidden config option for a custom API key. It's perhaps redundant. Should streamtuner2 -D however reveal an error, you can configure your own account in settings.json.