bash-scrobbler

Made so I could provoke my favourite music player Music On Console (MOC) to participate in the music panopticon that is Last.FM

Install

• have bash and curl, and the other binutils like grep, sed, tr.
• have a webbrowser handy with a last.fm account logged-in.
• get a Last.FM API key
• write them into ~/.config/bash-scrobbler like so:

  API_KEY=oicu812
  API_SECRET=foobarbaazquux
  

• bash-scrobbler init to start the process of getting a session key. It will attempt to open a webbrowser, but also print the URL so you can load it up youself.

Using with MOC

• edit $HOME/.moc/config to add these two lines:

  OnSongChange = "/path/to/bash-scrobbler %a %t %r"
  RepeatSongChange = "yes"
  

• mocp -x to force a restart of the daemon after making config changes.

MOC's "OnSongChange" feature isnt documented in the readme files nor man pages. To save you reading the source code, here are the % macros: %a artist %r album %t title %n track %f filename %D duration(seconds) %d duration(MM:SS)

Usage

After a successful init, and the config settings are stowed in ~/.config/bash-scrobbler:

bash-scrobbler "Toby Fox" "MeGaLoVania" "Homestuck Vol. 6: Heir Transparent"
bash-scrobbler "Boa" "Duvet"
bash-scrobbler "Battery" "The Chauffeur" "Newer Wave"

Todo

• optional third parameter for album name
• safer way to read CFGFILE than "source CFGFILE"
• option to post to libre.fm instead of last.fm; maybe both?
• sense too-frequent posting
• avoid redundant posting; GET method=track.updateNowPlaying first?
• sense if user is listening to an http(s) stream, and add the Last.FM parmeter "chosenByUser=0"
• option for love/unlove toggle

Acknowledgements

I went looking for Pachanka's moc-scrobbler, they said they moved from github to gitlab... but gitlab said pachanka's persona no grata, so no moc-scrobbler. Had to make my own.