Authentication failure

[tatiee]

● rescrobbled.service - An MPRIS scrobbler Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/rescrobbled.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2021-11-24 17:05:11 CST; 1min 5s ago Docs: https://github.com/InputUsername/rescrobbled Process: 1467 ExecStart=/home/tev/.cargo/bin/rescrobbled (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 1467 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Nov 24 17:05:11 tev-GL62-6QF systemd[3087]: Started An MPRIS scrobbler. Nov 24 17:05:11 tev-GL62-6QF rescrobbled[1467]: Username: Password: Failed to authenticate with Last.fm: Invalid authentication credential Nov 24 17:05:11 tev-GL62-6QF systemd[3087]: rescrobbled.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Nov 24 17:05:11 tev-GL62-6QF systemd[3087]: rescrobbled.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. ...skipping...

For some reason the notification for entering my Last.fm credentials never pops up when running the program in terminal. I'm on elementary 5.1 Hera

[InputUsername]

Just to confirm, what happens when you stop the service (systemctl --user stop rescrobbled) and then run rescrobbled in your terminal?

[tatiee]

Sorry I'm fairly new to linux - should I just be typing rescrobbled to start the service? Maybe that's where my issue is. I've been running this command systemctl --user start rescrobbled.service then systemctl --user status rescrobbled to pull the information above.

Either way, stopping it and starting it again (with the methods I've been using) shows the same error with no chance to type in my Last.fm credentials. I have the config.toml set up as well with my API token/secret all squared away.

[InputUsername]

No worries! You should simply run rescrobbled in a terminal (no systemctl). That should prompt for a username/password. If that succeeds, you can close the program, and start (or restart) the service.

Let me know if that works!

[tatiee]

Thanks I appreciate it! So I tried that and get "rescrobbled: command not found"

Edit: When I downloaded this version (0.4.0) from crates.io it gives me a warning and I wonder if that has something to do with my problem.

Updating crates.io index Ignored package rescrobbled v0.4.0 is already installed, use --force to override warning: be sure to add /home/tev/.cargo/bin to your PATH to be able to run the installed binaries

I believe I added the PATH correctly though...

[InputUsername]

The warning is expected, it looks like you've installed rescrobbled correctly from crates.io! :)

What is your $PATH variable right now? (eg. echo $PATH) Sometimes you need to log out and log back in again for changes to the path to be reflected.

In any case, you could also run rescrobbled directly using ~/.cargo/bin/rescrobbled. You only have to do this once anyway.

[tatiee]

Awesome, well good to know I made it this far ok!

Here's my $Path

/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/usr/bin/cargo:/usr/share/cargo:/usr/share/man/man1/cargo.1.gz

So that looks good (maybe?) - how do I run it directly from the above directory? Just opening the file in Terminal? If so, I tried that and it again just doesn't do anything and gives me the same error message when checking the service status...

[InputUsername]

You should be able to run ~/.cargo/bin/rescrobbled directly in a terminal, does that work?

[tatiee]

Yes! That worked - thank you so much for bearing with me. This is awesome.

[InputUsername]

🎉 happy to help! Hope rescrobbled is useful to you!

[tatiee]

Now playing: Erykah Badu - Appletree (Baduizm) Failed to filter metadata: Failed to run filter script: No such file or directory (os error 2) Failed to run filter script: No such file or directory (os error 2) Player io.elementary.music stopped, looking for a new MPRIS player... Found active player Spot

Here we go again... haha

[InputUsername]

What does your config look like? Do you want to use a filter script? If not, just remove or comment that line in the config file (prefix with #).

I think the only config options that are needed in your case are lastfm-token and lastfm-secret

[tatiee]

lastfm-key = "" lastfm-secret = "" listenbrainz-token = "ListenBrainz API token" enable-notifications = true min-play-time = 0 # in seconds player-whitelist = [] # if empty or ommitted, will allow all players filter-script = "path/to/script"

I'm not sure what a filter script is so if I don't need it then I can take it out.

[InputUsername]

The filter script is useful if you want to modify song information before it is submitted to Last.fm, but yeah it looks like you don't need it in that case! I recommend commenting out (prefix with #) every line in the config besides lastfm-token and lastfm-secret.

(Btw, you might want to remove the actual tokens from your comment, not a big deal but in general you should keep tokens like that a secret 😉 - my bad for not mentioning this)

[tatiee]

Ok great - and no worries! Thanks for looking out on that :) I will comment out the unnecessary settings, but not sure what you mean by (prefix with #) ?

[InputUsername]

If you add # at the start of the line in the config file, that line will be "commented out", ie. not interpreted as configuration options. The result is the same as removing those lines altogether.

Let me know if that works!

[tatiee]

After closing the current process we're up and running - music is scrobbling from both Spot and Music. Perfecto. Thank you so much again, this was incredibly helpful!

[InputUsername]

Awesome, glad it's working for you! 😄

And feel free to make another issue if you have other questions or problems with the program itself.