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+# headphones - Automatic music downloader
+#
+# This is a session/user job. Install this file into /usr/share/upstart/sessions
+# if headphones is installed system wide, and into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/upstart if
+# headphones is installed per user. Change the executable path appropiately.
+
+start on desktop-start
+stop on desktop-end
+
+env CONFIG=""$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"/headphones"
+env DATA=""$XDG_DATA_HOME"/headphones"
+
+pre-start script
+    [ -d "$CONFIG" ] || mkdir -p "$CONFIG"
+    [ -d "$DATA" ] || mkdir -p "$DATA"
+end script
+
+exec Headphones.py --nolaunch --config "$CONFIG"/config.ini --datadir "$DATA"