As a Service

Systemd

Systemd is system and service manager that is used by most popular linux distros including Ubuntu, Fedora, Pop!_OS, Debian, and Arch.

This setup will create a user service that runs on login.

Tip

Before running as a service you should run it at least once in the foreground to ensure it can start up correctly!

Create A Unit File

Create a new service file for multi-scrobbler under your HOME config:

mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user
touch ~/.config/systemd/user/multi-scrobbler.service

In a text editor add contents below to the file you created, multi-scrobbler.service:

multi-scrobbler.service

[Unit]
Description=multi-scrobbler
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=/path/to/multi-scrobbler/directory
ExecStart=npm run start
Restart=no

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Tip

If you set directories for your service (under Automatic directory creation and environment variables), like StateDirectory, Multi-Scrobbler will use the associated environmental variables

Start the Service

Save the file then run:

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable multi-scrobbler.service
systemctl --user start multi-scrobbler.service

This will

• scan for new services and pickup our multi-scrobbler user service
• enable the service to run at login automatically
• start the service now

Other Service Methods

Open a PR if you would like to document setting up multi-scrobbler for other service managers!