pidgin-musictracker is a plugin for Pidgin which displays the media currently playing in the status message for any protocol Pidgin supports custom statuses on.

Currently supported players:

on Linux:

• Amarok, Audacious†, Banshee, 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, 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¶, 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)
• † XMMS/Audacious 1.3: Title format needs to be set as '%p | %a | %t' in the players preferences. Delimiter choice '|' can be changed in musictracker settings.
• ‡ foobar2000 works best with a component installed to help musictracker get the track information (See FAQ #8) and musictracker's player setting set to 'auto-detect' or 'messenger compatible'. The foobar2000-specific player interface will be removed at some future date.
• § WMP: We don't think this works with 64-bit WMP
• ¶ 'Send "Now Playing" information to MSN Messenger' needs to be turned on in the player's options.

Privacy Statement/Security Considerations

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

Changes in 0.4.20

• Reformat configure output when a package check fails, to make it a bit easier for people to read and understand that development packages are required
• Add/update some more translations contributed via launchpad (added: Danish(da), Swedish(sv), Simplified Chinese(zn_CN); updated: Low German(nds), Dutch(nl), Polish(pl), Norwegian Bokmal(nb), French(fr), German(de))
• Fix snapshot script not do to anything if svn is unavailable; Don't wait for koji builds to complete in snapshot script; Launchpad snapshots are now built for ubuntu karmic as well
• Improve release script to create a clean working directory before starting

A full change log is available.

Also available are experimental test releases for the more adventurous. Please don't use these unless you are prepared to experience and report bugs.

Remarks

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