• Download: playomatic 0.3.17
• Change Log
• Licence: GPL
• Dependencies: mpg123, LWP::UserAgent and Digest::MD5

Getting started

• If you haven't already got an audioscrobbler account, sign yourself up at www.audioscrobbler.com
• Download the above file, and install it somewhere in your $PATH.
• Ensure that the dependencies are installed.
• Create a file called ".playomaticrc" in your home directory, with the following contents:

  username = your_last.fm_username
  password = your_last.fm_password
  

• Then run playomatic - you should see output something like the following, and within a second or two, last.fm will start playing:

  menawethan:~$ playomatic
  Playomatic 0.3.14
  http://moses.last.fm/last.mp3?Session=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3.
  Version 0.59r (1999/Jun/15). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp.
  Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
  THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
  
  No track info yet...
  
  Directory: http://moses.last.fm/
  Playing MPEG stream from
  last.mp3?Session=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ...
  MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbit/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo
  
  Station: jtjm (profile)
  Bob Dylan - Like a rolling stone
      from Highway 61 Revisited
  
    0:15 /   8:56                
  

• run "playomatic help" to view the man page, for instructions on how to skip tracks, change station, etc.

Man Page

Authors

The first version of playomatic was written by Chris Lightfoot. I've done all the recent work on it, and Chris will consequently deny all responsibility for any bugs that might remain, so please send your bug reports to me, Julian Midgley (jtjm@xenoclast.org).

Bug reports, comments, criticisms, suggestions, etc. ...