# Reddit

## //reddit.com/r/Music

Reddit (AKA "the frontpage of the internet") is a social media website. Among its various sections is a large group of music subreddits. Most of them link popular or novel Youtube music/videos, or user-produced content etc.

- Around 620 subreddits are queried. That's just a selected part though. Most others do not see as many audio posts / or are just for discussion and news.

- Besides youtube/mp3 files, this channel may also list Soundcloud/Mixcloud/Bandcamp links.

- Radioreddit.com even provides streaming servers. Its categories are: main, random, rock, metal, indie, electronic, hiphop, talk, festival.

- Thumbnails are slightly larger (32x26) than regular favicons.

- All entries also show poster name and user votes.

See the config options if you want to keep regular webpage posts - instead of just showing playable content.

### Status icons

Station entries may contain a status icon (leftmost; where usually the bookmarks ✩ star goes). It's a quick indicator of what type of content is linked:

▶

  Directly playable entry (MP3, MP4, Youtube, MIDI)

▶▶

  Walled garden (Soundcloud, Spotify, Bandcamp, Mixcloud) → playable

▮▮

  Walled gardens without playback handler.

📄

  Just a web-link. Those are kept with the ☒ keep all option.

## Configuration

There's a few options for the reddit plugin:

🔟 Number of pages to fetch

  Influences how many JSON requests are made to assemble a list of subreddit posts with playable content. (For this plugin that's configurable, because counting streams wouldn't work as reddit result lists vary wildly in their usable links.)

☑ Filter walled gardens

  Many music posts on reddit meanwhile point to one of Soundcloud, Spotify, Bandcamp, Mixcloud. Those are basically just links you had open in your browser. -- Now those are labeled "walled gardens" here, because they're hording user content behind a paywall/registration-wall, fiddly NIH APIs, non-standard audio formats, web-only players and sessioning.

  There's a few players or tools for those better-known hosters. But smaller services fall under the radar. Which is why I think it's unfair to provide out-of-the-box support for just those four services. -- But anyway, you can disable filtering them, if you like. And then configure a custom player:

  audio/soundcloud | soundcli %srv
  audio/spotify | sconsify %srv
  audio/bandcamp | youtube-dl -g %srv
  audio/mixcloud | vlc $(youtube-dl -g %srv)

  Obviously you want to pipe youtube-dl to an actual audio player again. VLC also supports a few services directly or via plugins.

☑ Keep all web links

  Besides audio/video links, some subreddits link to album art or are just news feeds. Enable the "keep all" option to retain them. Such entries will open in your web browser instead of an audio player, of course.

To utilize Soundcloud links, there's an extra url_soundcloud plugin. It overrides the audio/soundcloud player config, and resolves such streams to MP3 urls (session typically times out quickly, so no bookmarking/export possible etc).