Hello there,

I wrote a little perl script called mocstat that implements some kind of song change and general status information functionality. It runs in the background and invokes continuously (every 500ms) "mocp --info". The gathered status information will be submitted to two scripts via environment variables.

• ~/.mocstat/update is called every time "mocp --info" is called.
• ~/.mocstat/songchange is called when the current song has been playing for 30 seconds.

Here is an example for ~/.mocstat/update:

#!/bin/sh
echo -e "$TITLE"       > ~/.conky/mocstat.title
echo -e "$CURRENTTIME" > ~/.conky/mocstat.currenttime
echo -e "$TOTALTIME"   > ~/.conky/mocstat.totaltime
echo -e "$PERCENTDONE" > ~/.conky/mocstat.percentdone

This puts the status information in some FIFOs which I can read in my conkyrc via ${exec cat ~/.conky/mocstat.title} or ${execbar cat ~/.conky/mocstat.percentdone} or something like this.
I use FIFOs because normal files are sometimes empty when conky reads them which makes the display flickering. By using a FIFO, conky hangs until there is something to read. (Create a FIFO with mknod or mkfifo.)

Here is an example for ~/.mocstat/songchange to scrobble your music to last.fm via lastfmsubmitd:

#!/bin/sh
if [ -n "$ARTIST" ] && [ -n "$SONGTITLE" ] && [ -n "$TOTALTIME" ]; then
    /usr/lib/lastfmsubmitd/lastfmsubmit --encoding UTF-8 --artist "$ARTIST" --title "$SONGTITLE" --length "$TOTALTIME" --album "$ALBUM"
fi

If the necessary information for scrobbling (artist, title and length) is available, submit it to lastfmsubmitd which will make sure it gets to last.fm.

When you run this script for the first time, it creates ~/.mocstat/ automatically. You can then create and edit ~/.mocstat/update and/or ~/.mocstat/songchange. And don't forget to make them executable.

I put mocstat & in my ~/.xsession, so it gets started when I log in and works silently in the background.

And finally the download link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/hypep2

Feel free to send any constructive feedback to .