MusicMonitor

MusicMonitor watches MPD to displays track notifications via Growl and provide scrobbling.

Requirements

To run MusicMonitor, and all it's plugins, you'll need the following:

• librmpd gem (Core)
• ruby-aaws gem (Growl, album art)
• growlnotify (Growl)
• scrobbler gem (LastFM)

Usage

Just run

musicmonitor &

in the terminal. A proper daemon mode will be implemented in the future.

You can also add the --verbose flag to see more information about what's actually going on.

Plugins

If you want to disable a plugin, just move it out of the plugins directory, or change the file extension to something other than ".rb".

Growl

If you want to use album art, you'll need to create a file with your Amazon Developer's Key in it at ~/.amazonkey.

You can do this on the command line with:

echo 'MYAMAZONKEY' > ~/.amazonkey

...or just by using your favorite text editor.

LastFM

For scrobbling support, you'll need to put your last.fm credentials in a file at ~/.lastfm in the following format:

username
password

The password can also be an md5 hash rather than plain text.