mpris-scrobbler(1)

1MPRIS-SCROBBLER(1)          General Commands Manual         MPRIS-SCROBBLER(1)
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NAME

6       mpris-scrobbler - The MPRIS scrobbler user daemon
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SYNOPSIS

9       mpris-scrobbler [OPTIONS...]
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DESCRIPTION

12       mpris-scrobbler is a minimalistic user daemon for submitting the cur‐
13       rent playing songs to any of the supported scrobbling services.
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15       It can interact with any media-player that conforms to the MPRIS D-Bus
16       Interface Specification[1].
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SERVICES

19       mpris-scrobbler supported services are:
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21           listenbrainz.org
22               Music service associated with the Music Brainz audio finger‐
23               printing service.
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26               Open source variant of the original audioscrobbler.com service.
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28           last.fm
29               The evolution of the closed audioscrobbler.com service under
30               the CBS umbrella.
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OPTIONS

33       -h, --help
34           Print a short help message and version number and exit.
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36       -q, --quiet
37           Do not print any debugging messages.
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39       -v, -vv, -vvv, --verbose=[1..3]
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48           The default is to display only error and warning messages.
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SIGNALS

51       SIGTERM
52           Upon receiving this signal the mpris-scrobbler daemon will try to
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56           The mpris-scrobbler daemon treats this signal the same as SIGTERM.
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58       SIGHUP
59           Reloads the credentials file[3], then reloads the current playing
60           track if possible and submits it to the loaded services.
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ENVIRONMENT

63       $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, $XDG_DATA_HOME, $XDG_CACHE_HOME, $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
64           The mpris-scrobbler daemon uses these variables in accordance to
65           the XDG Base Directory specification[2] to find its configuration
66           and save its PID file.
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NOTES

69       1.  MPRIS D-Bus Interface Specification
70           https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/latest/
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72       2.  XDG Base Directory specification
73           http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-lat‐
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76       3.  mpris-scrobbler-credentials(5)
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