Import music into Rdio from a plain text file. We don't all use iTunes.

$ git clone https://github.com/pbrisbin/rdin
$ cd rdin && cabal install

Generate a text file containing one line per item you wish to import. That line should be of the form artist album.

Then:

$ rdin that-file.txt

rdin will execute an Album search via the Rdio API for each artist-album string and add the first result to your collection.

To add to your collection, you must grant rdin access. Upon running the tool, a url will be printed. Visit that link, grant access, and enter the provided PIN back into rdin.

TODO

To create a collection file from MPD, we'll put all or our music in one playlist then print and format that playlist:

$ mpc clear
$ mpc listall | mpc add
$ mpc --format '%artist% %album%' lsplaylist | uniq > collection.txt

If you don't want to edit the collection file before passing to rdin you can also pass it directly via process substitution:

$ rdin <(mpc --format '%artist% %album%' lsplaylist | uniq)