mpris-scrobbler is a user daemon for submitting listening activity from MPRIS-compatible media players to scrobbling services. Because it obtains track information through the standard D-Bus interface, it is not tied to one particular music player.
The package consists of a background daemon and a sign-on helper. The daemon listens for media-player events, while the helper handles authentication and controls which configured scrobbling services are enabled.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Works with media players that expose a suitable MPRIS interface.
- Submits listening activity to Last.fm.
- Supports Libre.fm and compatible Audioscrobbler services.
- Submits listens to ListenBrainz.
- Can use more than one configured scrobbling service.
- Lets individual services be enabled or disabled without repeating authentication.
- Provides a separate sign-on utility for managing credentials and sessions.
- Supports token-based ListenBrainz authentication.
- Handles the session-based authentication used by Last.fm and Libre.fm.
- Supports custom service URLs for suitable Libre.fm and ListenBrainz deployments.
- Runs naturally as a user systemd service.
- Listens for MPRIS signals rather than repeatedly polling a particular player.
- Provides multiple logging verbosity levels for diagnosing scrobbling and metadata problems.
- Can be built with additional debugging output for its networking, event, and D-Bus libraries.
Website: github.com/mariusor/mpris-scrobbler
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Developer: Marius Orcsik
License: MIT License
mpris-scrobbler is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Scrobbler Tools | |
|---|---|
| Web Scrobbler | Scrobble playback history |
| Pano Scrobbler | Track listening activity across multiple music players and services |
| Maloja | Simple self-hosted music scrobble database |
| multi-scrobbler | JavaScript app to scrobble music you listened to |
| Koito | ListenBrainz-compatible scrobbler |
| cmusfm | Last.fm scrobbler for cmus music player |
| Rescrobbled | Music scrobbler daemon |
| Open Scrobbler | Web-based client for manually scrobbling music to Last.fm |
| Turntable | GUI and CLI tool to scrobble your music |
| mpris-scrobbler | Minimalistic user daemon |
| mpdscribble | Submits information about tracks being played to scrobbler services |
| Scrobblet | Lightweight self-hosted service for recording listening activity |
| goscrobble | Simple music scrobbler daemon |
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| MPRIS Tools | |
|---|---|
| playerctl | MPRIS media player command-line controller |
| mpris-ctl | Minimalistic command-line interface tool for controlling audio players |
| mpv-mpris | mpv plugin to control the player using standard media keys |
| mpd-mpris | MPRIS protocol for MPD |
| mprisence | Bridges MPRIS-compatible media players |
| empress | MPRIS media controls made simple |
| mpris-scrobbler | Minimalistic user daemon |
| MPRIS MiniPlayer | Displays whatever media in a MPRIS compatible player is playing. |
| mpdris2-rs | Expose MPD playback through MPRIS2 |
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