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Wunderkind

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Registered: 2010-01-01

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mpdscribble- can't get it to work

So I followed the "official" Arch MPD set up guide which enabled me to successfully  set up MPD with ncmpcpp.

Sadly, however, the same can not be said of the information available relating to mpdscribble set up. For the life of me I can't get it to scrobble. There are barely 6 lines explaining what needs to be done so it can't be that difficult and yet, nothing.

In trying to establish where I went wrong I've attempted more than one fresh installation of mpdscribble where I've followed the scanty advice available. In this case Google has not been my friend.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Wunderkind

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Registered: 2010-01-01

Posts: 10

Re: mpdscribble- can't get it to work

Okay, update- I've tinkered some more and now the problem is one of permissions- "cannot open /var/log/mpdscribble: Permission denied...aborting."

Once again, any help...

Last edited by Wunderkind (2010-01-08 08:48:43)

Wunderkind

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Registered: 2010-01-01

Posts: 10

Re: mpdscribble- can't get it to work

Problem solved- not quite sure how.

Needless to say there's some information lacking or incorrect in the various wikis.

Also md5 password generator proved to be an unnecessary step (in case anyone was wondering).

dmz

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-08-27

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Re: mpdscribble- can't get it to work

You might want to try out scmpc instead. Personally I think mpdscribble suck since when I was using it, suddenly it stopped scrobbling at random intervals.

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ijanos

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From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 443

Re: mpdscribble- can't get it to work

Or scrobby

teh

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From: Tijuana, Mexico

Registered: 2009-07-07

Posts: 374

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Re: mpdscribble- can't get it to work

You might want to try out scmpc instead. Personally I think mpdscribble suck since when I was using it, suddenly it stopped scrobbling at random intervals.

True that.

I use mpdas: http://50hz.ws/mpdas/

"Listening now using mpdas, a scrobbler for MPD"

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