Scribble, Scrabble, Scrobble.. MPD and last.fm

I'm using mpdscribble for last.fm scrobbling from now on since scrobby isn't in portage anymore.

And again I had to create and copy some stuff because I want to run it as my normal user like I also do with MPD.

Here's the way how I've made it work:

Mpdscribble <=0.21 has a small bug and doesn't work with >=curl-7.21.0, so the curl useflag needs to be disabled in /etc/portage/package.use:

media-sound/mpdscribble -curl


OR

Unmask the most recent version v0.22 in /etc/portage/package.keywords:

~media-sound/mpdscribble-0.22


Install mpdscribble:

emerge mpdscribble


Create the needed directories in your user home:

mkdir -p ~/.config/mpdscribble


Copy the config file from /etc/mpdscribble.conf to ~/.config/mpdscribble. You need to be root for doing so because the config file is only readable as root.

sudo cp /etc/mpdscribble.conf /home/<your user>/.config/mpdscribble/


Edit the config file ~/.config/mpdscribble/mpdscribble.conf but take care to use full pathes:

pidfile = /home/<your user>/.config/mpdscribble/mpdscribble.pid
log = /home/<your user>/.config/mpdscribble/mpdscribble.log
verbose = 1

[last.fm]
url = http://post.audioscrobbler.com/
username = <your last.fm user>
password = <your last.fm password>
journal = /home/<your user>/.config/mpdscribble/lastfm.journal


Everything else is commented out.

Now you can start mpdscribble:

mpdscribble --conf ~/.config/mpdscribble/mpdscribble.conf