I was recently looking for a plugin for Amarok (it seems to be the best mp3 player provided with openSUSE 10.2) which will display the song title and artist of the music track I’m currently listening to in Pidgin’s status. After spending some time researching available plugins and reading user comments I found AmarokPidgin at KDE-Apps.org which does what I want and appeared to have straight-forward installation.
So, I installed the plugin and once up-and-running it worked like a charm. However, the plugin was unable to generate the default configuration so I had to do this manually. Just copy the config file below in to a text editor and save it to ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/scripts-data/ as AmarokPidgin.ini.
[AmarokPidgin] status_name = Media status_message = Listening to $title by $artist on $album [Amarok] censor = false censor_words = # Put words here separated by a | eg: word1|word2|word3 display = status # Where to display song playing. either status or nick
Just remember, you will need to change your status in Pidgin to Media for the status message to be visible to the people on your Buddy List.
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This plugin is great, but it does not change the diplay name, (the name viewed by the others). I try to modify the script but there is a problem when i try to apply the modifies?
can you help me?
Did you definitely change the status to “Media” in Pidgin? By default, it’s “available” but once switched to “Media” it will display the track information.
I read something about musictracker.
http://code.google.com/p/musictracker/
Here you can see, and it works with amarok, just fine
Thank you for the tip, mate. I’ve had a read about it, sounds pretty good, so I’ll check that out.
I had the same problem like Ilario.
You have to enter SAVED STATUSES and there choose Media status wich is different from Available with media message.
Thanks Paul for the tip.