mpdas - Man Page

Music Player Daemon AudioScrobbler

Synopsis

mpdas [options]

Description

mpdas is a MPD AudioScrobbler client using libmpd to retrieve the song data from MPD and libcurl to post it to Last.fm.

Options

-c CONFIGFILE

Read configuration from file.

-d

Run detached from the controlling terminal.

-h

Display help.

-v

Display version.

Configuration

When mpdas starts it tries to read the configuration file $SYSCONFIGDIR/mpdasrc first, then the user configuration file at ~/.config/mpdasrc (taken from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME if set) or ~/.mpdasrc.

An example configuration file (mpdasrc.example) is usually provided with mpdas.
username = LASTFM USERNAME

Set your Last.fm username.

password = LASTFM PASSWORD

Set your Last.fm password

host = HOSTNAME

Set the hostname used by MPD.

mpdpassword = MPD PASSWORD

Set the password used by MPD.

port = MPD PORT

Set the port used by MPD.

runas = USERNAME

Changes the user mpdas runs as.

debug = (0|1)

Print out debug information.

service = SERVICE NAME

Will scrobble to Libre.fm if set to "librefm". Otherwise Last.fm is used (default).

Authors

mpdas was written by Henrik Friedrichsen <henrik@affekt.org>.

The manpage was written by Sebastian Mair <tuqs@core.ws>.