Messengers and Music Players

[Chris Mohler]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Minty Busby <serendipity.g3a at gmail.com> wrote:

> However, I'm not sure I was clear describing the feature I was talking
> about.  I didn't mean to say I wanted to see song info in a gnome panel.
> What I meant was that ... wait, anybody talk to a lot of non-Linux people on
> Live/MSN Messenger?  A lot of them have this feature with iTunes, WMP, and
> other media players that change the status message on their messenger to
> show the song that's currently playing on their default media player.  It
> changes their status message in real time every time another song starts.
> When my sister is listening to her iTunes on her computer, the name of the
> song she's listening to appears under her name on my Pidgin, and it has
> little note graphics next to it.  Am I making any sense?  o=)

Maybe try installing this package?

pidgin-musictracker

Chris

# aptitude show pidgin-musictracker
Package: pidgin-musictracker
New: yes
State: not installed
Version: 0.4.1-1
Priority: extra
Section: universe/net
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu at lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 139k
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.13.2), libc6 (>= 2.6.1-1), libcairo2 (>= 1.4.0),
         libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.1.1), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.74), libfontconfig1 (>=
         2.4.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0),
         libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.19.0), libpcre3 (>= 6.0), libx11-6, libxcomposite1
         (>= 1:0.3-1), libxcursor1 (> 1.1.2), libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1), libxext6,
         libxfixes3 (>= 1:4.0.1), libxi6, libxinerama1, libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.0),
         libxrender1
Description: Plugin for Pidgin which displays the current music track
in your status
 MusicTracker is a plugin for Pidgin (previously known as Gaim) which displays
 the music track currently playing in the status message of various accounts
 such as AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Gtalk (Jabber), etc., i.e. any protocol Pidgin
 supports custom statuses on.

 Features
 * Currently supported players: Amarok, Rhythmbox, Audacious, XMMS, MPC/MPD,
 Exaile, Banshee, Quod Libet on Linux.
 * Allows you to customize the status string with various fields extracted
 from your media player such as artist, album, track, duration, progress bar,
 etc.
 * Works around Pidgin's lack of support for MSN status messages by using
 the nickname instead.
 * Different status messages for various media player states such as
 Playing, Paused and Stopped.
 * Supports per-account status format customization.
 * Optional Profanity filter for words in the status.