giof71/subsonic-mpd-scrobbler repository overview

⁠mpd-subsonic-scrobbler

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This is a very simple Subsonic scrobbler for MPD.
It is not a LAST.FM or libre.fm scrobbler.
This scrobbler allows mpd to notify a subsonic server when it has played a song which has been server from that subsonic server.
It might be useful when using the Subsonic plugin for Upmpdcli. See the discussion here⁠.

⁠Links

⁠Related projects

The last two provide a simple way to deploy mpd and upmpdcli using docker.

⁠Repositories for this project

⁠Available Archs on Docker Hub

• linux/amd64
• linux/arm/v7
• linux/arm64/v8

⁠Usage

⁠Volumes

⁠Enviroment Variables

The subsonic configuration parameters are required: either specificy the individual variables, or specify a SUBSONIC_PARAMETERS to indicate the file which will contain the parameters. The file must be accessible to the container. You can use the /config volume and put a file named, e.g. ".subsonic.env" there.

⁠Example configurations

The following connect to mpd-d10 which is an instance of mpd-alsa-docker running on the same host and specifically on the network mpd.
Subsonic config is read from a separate file.

---
version: "3"

networks:
  mpd:
    external: true

services:
  scrobbler:
    image: giof71/subsonic-mpd-scrobbler:latest
    container_name: subsonic-scrobbler-d10
    networks:
      - mpd
    environment:
      - PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
      - MPD_HOST=mpd-d10
      - MPD_PORT=6600
      - SUBSONIC_PARAMETERS_FILE=/config/subsonic.env
      - VERBOSE=0
    volumes:
      - ./navidrome.env:/config/subsonic.env:ro
    restart: unless-stopped

Same situation, without the separate file:

---
version: "3"

networks:
  mpd:
    external: true

services:
  scrobbler:
    image: giof71/subsonic-mpd-scrobbler:latest
    container_name: subsonic-scrobbler-d10
    networks:
      - mpd
    environment:
      - PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
      - MPD_HOST=mpd-d10
      - MPD_PORT=6600
      - _SUBSONIC_BASE_URL=${SUBSONIC_BASE_URL}
      - _SUBSONIC_PORT=${SUBSONIC_PORT}
      - _SUBSONIC_USER=${SUBSONIC_USER}
      - _SUBSONIC_PASSWORD=${SUBSONIC_PASSWORD}
      - VERBOSE=0
    restart: unless-stopped

In this case, the configuration parameters are read from the .env file.
In order to avoid issues with password, which might contain special characters, it is better to not place such password on the compose file, and leverage the .env file instead.