View the music I’m listening to in Pidgin
Considering, that lots of people are interested in showing what they are listening to, while chatting , we decided to make a tutorial explaining how to achieve this in 3 of the most famous and most used instant messaging softwares (chat softwares) on Ubuntu.
First we'll see how to configure Pidgin, to view what we're listening to, because its a software installed by default on Ubuntu and no doubt, that it is one of the most used instant messaging softwares.
To start the configuration, we should download the musictracker plugin from getdeb.net, under the following direction: http://www.getdeb.net/app/pidgin-musictracker and install it by a double click.
In the next step we'll open Pidgin, and in our tools-menu we go to complements, where we'll activate or enable musictracker.
If we want to, we can choose the option "configure" to set some detailed configuration, like what message we would like to view if our musicplayer is on pause, or which musicplayer we are going to use...
The plugin musictracker works in pidgin with the following musicplayers:
- XMMS
- Audacious
- Amarok
- Rhythmbox
- Banshee
- Vagalume
- QuodLibet
- Exaile
- MOC
- Listen
- SqueezeCenter
- XMMS2
- MPRIS
- Songbird
- MPD
- Last.fm
We hope, this post helps you to configure Pidgin to view the music, you're listening to, if you've any doubts or problems, please leave a comment.
