# Mopidy-Stream

Mopidy-Stream is an extension for playing streaming music. It is bundled with Mopidy and enabled by default.

This backend does not provide a library or playlist storage. It simply accepts any URI added to Mopidy’s tracklist that matches any of the protocols in the `stream/protocols` config value. It then tries to retrieve metadata and play back the URI using GStreamer. For example, if you’re using an MPD client, you’ll just have to find your clients “add URI” interface, and provide it with the URI of a stream.

In addition to playing streams, the extension also understands how to extract streams from a lot of playlist formats. This is convenient as most Internet radio stations links to playlists instead of directly to the radio streams.

If you’re having trouble playing back a stream, see Show installed dependencies for how to check if you have all relevant GStreamer plugins installed.

## Configuration

See Configuration for general help on configuring Mopidy.

    [stream]
    enabled = true
    protocols =
        http
        https
        mms
        rtmp
        rtmps
        rtsp
    timeout = 5000
    metadata_blacklist =

stream/enabled

  If the stream extension should be enabled or not.

stream/protocols

  Whitelist of URI schemas to allow streaming from. Values should be separated by either comma or newline.

stream/timeout

  Number of milliseconds before giving up looking up stream metadata.

stream/metadata_blacklist

  List of URI globs to not fetch metadata from before playing. This feature is typically needed for play once URIs provided by certain streaming providers. Regular POSIX glob semantics apply, so `http://*.example.com/*` would match all example.com sub-domains.