SCROBBLER-HELPER(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SCROBBLER-HELPER(1)NAMEscrobbler-helper - submit a track to AudioScrobbler
SYNOPSISscrobbler-helper [-nv] [-e encoding] [-f configfile] -P progname
-V progver title artist album year comment genre length
DESCRIPTION
The scrobbler-helper utility uses the "Audio::Scrobbler" module to
submit a single track's information to Last.fm's AudioScrobbler -
http://www.audioscrobbler.com/. It requires the program (plug-in) name
and version to be specified on the command line, and also requires all
seven track attributes, although some of them may be omitted by
supplying empty strings.
The following command-line options are recognized:
-e encoding
Specify the character encoding of the track info, if it is neither
UTF-8 nor the one specified via default_encoding in the
configuration file.
-f configfile
Specify a different configuration file, not
~/.scrobbler-helper.conf.
-n Do not actually perform the handshake and submission (sets the
"Audio::Scrobbler" "fake" option).
-P progname
Specify the name of the AudioScrobbler plug-in submitting the data.
This option is mandatory!
-v Verbose operation - display diagnostic messages to the standard
output (sets the "Audio::Scrobbler" "verbose" option).
-V progver
Specify the version of the AudioScrobbler plug-in submitting the
data. This option is mandatory!
Besides the command line, the scrobbler-helper utility also retrieves
information from a per-user configuration file, usually
~/.scrobbler-helper.conf; it is a INI-style file, which must contain a
secion named "global". The following variables are recognized, with
username and password being mandatory:
· default_encoding
The encoding to assume for the track info, if none is supplied with
the -e command-line option. If neither -e is given on the command
line nor default_encoding specified in the configuration file, the
scrobbler-helper utility assumes UTF-8.
· fix_track_name
A boolean flag specifying whether to do some trivial fixes on the
song name before submitting it. Currently, this only removes a
"DD. " sequence at the start of the name, where 'D' is a digit.
The values "on", "true", "yes", and 1 are considered to be true.
· password
The password for the AudioScrobbler account.
· username
The username for the AudioScrobbler account.
[global]
username=jrandomlistener
password=mylittlesecret
# Optional (the default is UTF-8)
default_encoding=windows-1251
# Optional (the default is "no")
fix_track_name=yes
TODO
· Command-line options, so people don't have to submit everything...
· Storing and caching of unsuccessful submissions for later retrying.
SEE ALSO
Audio::Scrobbler
· http://www.last.fm/
· http://www.audioscrobbler.com/
· http://www.audioscrobbler.net/
The home site of the "Audio::Scrobbler" module is
http://devel.ringlet.net/audio/Audio-Scrobbler/
AUTHOR
Peter Pentchev, <roam@ringlet.net>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 by Peter Pentchev.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.7 or, at
your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
$Id: scrobbler-helper 88 2006-01-02 09:16:32Z roam $
perl v5.20.2 2006-01-02 SCROBBLER-HELPER(1)
