SCROBBLER(1)

💖 SCROBBLER 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the scrobbler(1) page, straight out of the General Commands Manual ✨ it's a whole vibe, it's giving "your music taste deserves to be documented", and we're gonna go through it together 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

scrobbler — a last.fm and libre.fm submitter for portable devices 🎧💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

scrobbler [options]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like. scrobbler is THE program that takes the info about all the tracks you've been listening to on your portable music player and submits it to last.fm (which, fun fact, used to be called Audioscrobbler back in the day 👑), libre.fm, and/or a custom site of your choice. yes, your choice. main character energy fr fr.

and the way it gets that info? iconic. it can read it from:

• .scrobbler.log files — i.e. the ones produced by the open Rockbox firmware 🪨
• iPod databases 🍎
• devices that use MTP (aka Plays for Sure) 🫶

and that's not even all of it bestie — on top of everything, scrobbler can also adjust the date/time information for when each track was listened to before it uploads. which is lowkey a lifesaver if your device is set to a different timezone than the machine you're uploading from 😭 no cap, timezone chaos is real and this fixes it.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

this program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (-). here's the full rundown, no skips, we're covering everything 💖

• -c, --config — where the config file lives. it's required for operation, so like... don't skip this one bestie 🙈
• -d, --database — submit information from an iPod database (needs -l to work 🍓)
• -f, --file — submit information from an .scrobbler.log file (needs -l too 🌸)
• -h, --help — show a summary of the options. your little helper 🫶
• -l, --location <path> — the filesystem location of your portable device's mount point 📍
• -m, --mtp — submit from an MTP (aka Plays for Sure) device 🔥
• -n, --now — recalculates the times each track was played, before submitting. it's automatically enabled if you're using a .scrobbler-timeless.log or an MTP device ✨
• -r, --recalc <datetime> — recalculates the play time for each track. <datetime> should be a UNIX timestamp ⏰
• -t, --timestamp <when> — overrides the detected system timezone offset from UTC. <when> is the UNIX timestamp, e.g. -t `date --date "-5 hours" +%s` 🌈
• -v, --verbose <level> — output verbosity level. more talking, more info 💬

🌐 WWW 🌐

http://qtscrob.sourceforge.net

this manual page was written by Robert Keevil <rkeevil@gmail.com>, and is licensed under version 2 of the GPL 📜

and that's the whole page bestie!! 💖 this cutie was dated April 23, 2010, so shoutout to the past for giving us this ✨ now go scrobble your little heart out, you're literally doing amazing 🎀🦋💜