debian man page for scrobbler-helper

SCROBBLER-HELPER(1p)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				      SCROBBLER-HELPER(1p)

NAME
       scrobbler-helper - submit a track to AudioScrobbler

SYNOPSIS
	scrobbler-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 configura-
	   tion 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 ~/.scrob-
       bler-helper.conf; it is a INI-style file, which must contain a secion named "global".  The following variables are recognized, with user-
       name 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
       o   Command-line options, so people don't have to submit everything...

       o   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 v5.8.8							    2006-01-02						      SCROBBLER-HELPER(1p)