Best track scrobbling with MPD + Sonata + Last.fm
I’ve already described how to setup MPD on Linux: it wasn’t enough to play music. You may choose from lots of interesting clients, but I preferred Sonata.
It’s a clean, lightweight, full-featured PyGtk client for MPD: you could find it in the official Ubuntu’s repositories or wherever you need to.
Sonata got a built-in Last.fm integration, while other clients require you to install lastfmsubmitd to scrobble tracks.
Installing it on Karmic Koala is as easy as running:
$ sudo apt-get install sonata
It supports multiple profiles to connect to different servers, but one of its main lacks is that you can’t change the default profile’s name from the GUI.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to integrate it with Notify OSD — although it dials with D-Bus. Anyway, Sonata is the best solution I tried: feel free to install it on all of your Linux-powered devices.
