pidgin-musictracker is a plugin for Pidgin which publicises your currently playing media to your contacts.

Currently supported players:

on Linux:

• Amarok, Audacious, Banshee, Clementine, Exaile, Last.fm feed, Listen, MOC, MPD, Quod Libet, Rhythmbox, Songbird + DBusBird addon, SqueezeCenter, Vagalume, XMMS, XMMS2 >= 0.6
• plus any player supporting the MPRIS DBus interface (Amarok2, BMPx, dragonplayer, Exaile >= 0.3, Goggles Music Manager, Guayadeque, QMMP >=0.3, Rhythmbox, Songbird + MPRIS addon, VLC >0.9.0, etc.)

on Windows:

• Foobar2000, iTunes, Last.fm feed, MPD, Winamp, Windows Media Player
• plus any player with a 'winamp-compatible' interface (AIMP2, MediaMonkey, etc.)
• plus any player with a 'Send "Now Playing" information to MSN Messenger' feature ( Last.fm client, Media Player Classic, OpenPandora, Songbird + LiveTweeter, Spotify, TTplayer, VLC, Zune, etc.)

Features:

• Allows you to customize the status string with various fields extracted from your media player such as artist, album, track, duration, progress bar, etc.
• Different status messages for various media player states such as Playing, Paused and Stopped. You can choose to use the normal status message (by default in the stoppped state).
• '/nowplaying' inserts the now-playing information into your conversation
• Supports per-account status format customization.
• You may choose to have your away message override musictracker.
• Optional profanity filter for words in the status.
• Can auto-detect which player is in use.

Notes:

• To show now playing in MSN personal status messages you must be using pidgin 2.5.0 or later (or msn-pecan). If you have ever had musictracker 0.4.1 or earlier installed, you must reinstall pidgin for MSN personal status messages to work correctly. (See  issue 15 , FAQ #2)
• See this wiki page for details on configuring your player and musictracker to work together

Privacy Statement/Security Considerations

• People can see what media you are listening to/watching. Doh!

Changes

A full change log is available.

Remarks

Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or higher.