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Radio & podcasts

Internet radios and Podcasts do not come from your Beets library, and are managed entirely by BeetstreamNext.

Internet radio

BeetstreamNext implements the Subsonic internet radio endpoints (getInternetRadioStations, createInternetRadioStation, updateInternetRadioStation, deleteInternetRadioStation).

Each user has their own radio station list from their account page or any Subsonic client that supports them. No specific role is required.

Note

When upgrading from BeetstreamNext v2.0.7 (where stations were shared server-wide), existing stations are automatically copied to every existing user.

  • Station discovery: Set enable_radio_discovery to search Radio Browser, a community-maintained directory of internet radio streams.

  • Icons: BeetstreamNext tries to scrape icons from the station homepage’s <link rel="icon">/apple-touch-icon tags, or falls back to DuckDuckGo’s icon proxy.

Podcasts

BeetstreamNext implements the full Subsonic podcast feature set: subscribing to RSS feeds, browsing channels and episodes, and downloading episodes for offline playback in a client.

  • Subscriptions per-user: Each user with the podcastRole can manage their own subscriptions.

  • Channel discovery: Set enable_podcast_discovery and configure podcastindex_api_key/podcastindex_api_secret (a free account at podcastindex.org) to search for podcasts from the admin panel.

  • Storage and auto-download:

    • podcast_storage_dir: where downloaded episodes are stored. Leave empty to use the default location.

    • podcast_auto_download_count: how many of a channel’s most recent episodes are automatically downloaded when a new channel is added. Set it to 0 to disable auto-download and only fetch episodes on request (see Note below).

  • OPML Import/Export: Supports importing/exporting existing podcast subscriptions.

Note

Many clients do not expose any “Download” button for individual episodes.

Because of that, BeetstreamNext triggers a download automatically when it receives an episode streaming request: the audio is written to disk and forwarded to the client at the same time.

See the configuration reference and enable_radio_discovery for these settings.