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.

mozai / bash-scrobbler