iina-lastfm

mpv script to scrobble songs played through iina to last.fm, since nobody else has made one.

No dependencies! Runs on macOS Big Sur(+) with just iina installed - thanks core Perl!

Last tested on iina 1.3.5 & macOS Ventura 13.5.

If you want to run this on mpv for Windows or Linux make sure you have netcat and perl on your PATH.

Installing

1. In iina advanced preferences, enable advanced mode, and set the config directory to ~/.config/mpv/

2. In iina advanced preferences, enable:

   Name	Value
   load-scripts	yes
   input-ipc-server	/tmp/mpv-socket

3. Copy the lastfmscrobbler folder and the scripts folder into ~/.config/mpv/

4. Open lastfmscrobbler/scrobble.pl and modify the following lines with your last.fm login:

   $USERNAME = 'myUsername'
   $PASSWORD = 'myPassword'

Debugging

With iina open and paused playing a track, run scrobble.pl directly and check the error.

perl ~/.config/mpv/lastfmscrobbler/scrobble.pl

The script won't work unless the track you're playing has both of these metadata tags.

'TITLE'|'Title'|'title'

'ARTIST'|'Artist'|'artist'

You can see the raw metadata of the track when iina is running with

echo '{ "command": ["get_property", "metadata"] }' | nc -U /tmp/mpv-socket

If the program is scrobbling when you run scrobble.pl manually but not automatically, check iina.log for lua errors.