This is a song submission script for last.fm/audioscrobbler. The script mp3blstr2dscrbblr.sh (mp3blaster to audioscrobbler) analyses the status file of mp3blaster and delivers the gattered information to a perl script (scrobbler-helper).
mp3blaster doesn't have a native plugin interface. Thus we have to retrieve the required information through mp3blaster's status file (created by calling mp3blaster -f ). This will be done every 30 seconds by a script called via cron. This script checks if the song is playing for at least 30 seconds playing (giving the listener enough time to skip it) and at most for 59 seconds (preventing multiple submissions). This check can be disabled by calling the script with the parameter --force if required.
- mp3blaster
- scrobbler-helper:
- http://search.cpan.org/~roam/Audio-Scrobbler-0.01/lib/Audio/Scrobbler.pm
- or libaudio-scrobbler-perl (debian package)
- last.fm account
Make sure you run mp3blaster with -f /tmp/mp3blaster as argument (or
another location after configuring mp3blstr2dscrbblr.sh accordingly).
You also have to configure your last.fm username and password for scrobbler-helper, usually via ~/.scrobbler-helper.conf
Then create a local cron job via crontab -e and add something like:
* * * * * nice -19 ~/scripts/mp3blstr2dscrbblr.sh > /dev/null & sleep 30s && nice -19 ~/scripts/mp3blstr2dscrbblr.sh > /dev/null
or:
* * * * * nice -19 ~/scripts/mp3blstr2dscrbblr.sh > /dev/null
* * * * * sleep 30s && nice -19 ~/scripts/mp3blstr2dscrbblr.sh > /dev/null
Note: cron runs every minute but mp3blstr2dscrbblr.sh has to be called every 30 seconds, hence the sleep.
That's all, now your songs should get scrobbled.