https://github.com/erik/lastcast

Scrobble music playing on Chromecast (from Spotify, Google Play, SoundCloud, ...) to last.fm and libre.fm
https://github.com/erik/lastcast

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Scrobble music playing on Chromecast (from Spotify, Google Play, SoundCloud, ...) to last.fm and libre.fm

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/erik/lastcast
• Owner: erik
• License: mit
• Created: 2016-06-06T01:28:41.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-07-18T08:41:30.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-29T15:41:36.710Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: chromecast, lastfm, libre-fm, python
• Language: Python
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• Size: 103 KB
• Stars: 79
• Watchers: 9
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.rst
  • License: LICENSE

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lastcast

========

Scrobble music playing on Chromecast devices to last.fm and libre.fm.

By default, lastcast will scrobble music playing on Spotify,

Google Play Music, SoundCloud, Plex, and YouTube Music but can

be configured to scrobble any media player that supports Chromecast.

**A Note for Spotify Users:**

Last.fm now has `first class

support `_

for Spotify, and you should probably use this rather than lastcast.

Requires Python 3.7+. **If you need Python 2** please install

``lastcast==0.7.0``

Getting started

---------------

``pip3 install lastcast``

Set up an initial configuration with the configuration

creation tool:

``lastcast --wizard``

If you'd prefer to set up the configuration manually, modify

``example.lastcast.toml`` from the repo and save it to

``~/.lastcast.toml``.

Once the configuration file is in place, just run ``lastcast`` to connect to

the Chromecast and start scrobbling!

Linux / systemd instructions

----------------------------

1. ``sudo pip3 install --upgrade lastcast``

2. ``lastcast --wizard``

3. Edit the code block below as needed (remember to fill in the config path!)

   and write to ``/usr/lib/systemd/system/lastcast.service``

   (or ``/etc/systemd/system/lastcast.service`` if the directory doesn't exist)

4. ``sudo systemctl daemon-reload``

5. ``sudo systemctl enable lastcast``

.. code-block:: ini

   [Unit]

   Description=lastcast

   Requires=networking.service

   After=network-online.target

   Wants=network-online.target

   [Service]

   ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/lastcast --config [PATH TO lastcast.toml]

   Restart=always

   RestartSec=5

   # Set this to run as your user rather than root!

   User=pi

   [Install]

   WantedBy=multi-user.target

Linux / systemd troubleshooting

-------------------------------

If your lastcast installation is not scrobbling check its log calling ``journalctl -f _COMM=lastcast``

If you see the following error

.. code-block:: bash

    RuntimeError: Click will abort further execution because Python 3 was

    configured to use ASCII as encoding for the environment.

    This system supports the C.UTF-8 locale which is recommended.

    You might be able to resolve your issue by exporting the

    following environment variables:

    export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8

    export LANG=C.UTF-8

modify the ``lastcast.service`` file you created in the previous section as by adding the following

to the ``[Service]`` section

.. code-block:: ini

    Environment="LC_ALL=C.UTF-8"

    Environment="LANG=C.UTF-8"

Detailed macOS setup

--------------------

(for anyone not familiar with Python and pip)

Enter the following commands in your Terminal (Terminal.app, iTerm2, etc.):

1. ``brew install python3``

2. ``sudo pip3 install --upgrade lastcast``

3. ``lastcast --wizard``

This will prompt you to create a last.fm API application and then ask for your

login information, which will only be stored locally on your computer.

You may get an error on step 2 about ``cc`` missing. If this is the case,

install xcode by running ``xcode-select --install`` and retry step 2.

Now everything should be set up. When you want to start scrobbling, simply

run ``lastcast`` in the terminal.

Docker setup

------------

``lastcast`` uses a Docker volume in order to link the configuration file

into the container.

.. code:: bash

   # Path to configuration file. Make sure to use an absolute path.

   export CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/your/lastcast.toml

   docker build -t lastcast .

   docker run -it                   \

     --net=host                     \

     --name lastcast                \

     -v $CONFIG_PATH:/lastcast.toml \

     lastcast

   # If you need to generate a config file, run the wizard:

   docker run -it                   \

     --net=host                     \

     -v $CONFIG_PATH:/lastcast.toml \

     lastcast                       \

     lastcast --wizard

No Chromecast devices found?

----------------------------

It is possible that an incompatible version of ``netifaces`` will prevent lastcast

from finding any Chromecast devices on your network. This is known to affect

Windows 10 with ``netifaces==0.10.5`` installed.

The fix, as described in `this StackOverflow answer

`_ is simply to uninstall the wrong version

and manually install ``netifaces==0.10.4``.

.. code:: bash

   $ pip uninstall netifaces

   $ pip install netifaces==0.10.4

If you still can't discover any Chromecasts, please `open an issue

`_.