Pidgin Plugin For Amarok

Posted on 04 Nov, 2007 by Paul

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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Comment from Ilario on March 16, 2008, 21:26

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?

Comment from Paul on March 26, 2008, 18:14

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.

Comment from Alberto on May 2, 2008, 00:33

I read something about musictracker.

http://code.google.com/p/musictracker/
Here you can see, and it works with amarok, just fine

Comment from Paul on May 3, 2008, 16:26

Thank you for the tip, mate. I’ve had a read about it, sounds pretty good, so I’ll check that out.

Pidgin Plugin For Amarok

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