Comments on: Show in Pidgin what you’re listening on Spotify

By: Josh Hargreaves

Josh Hargreaves — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:11:48 +0000

oh it’s alright i’ve managed to get it working

By: Eetu

Eetu — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:25:24 +0000

Nice! Is it possible to use this with emesene?

Sorry my bad english, i’m young boy from Finland

By: Richard Foulkes

Richard Foulkes — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:49:11 +0000

Ugly hack to get it to show artist and track (i think libpurple isn’t sending these properly, at least not across gtalk / jabber) – edit spotify_util.c , search for ‘regex’ and change that block to look like this:

regex = g_regex_new(“Spotify – (?P.+)”, 0, 0, NULL);
g_regex_match(regex, res->win_title, 0, &match_info);
res->playing.artist = g_match_info_fetch_named(match_info, “ARTIST”);
res->playing.title = g_match_info_fetch_named(match_info, “ARTIST”);

Basically getting all the info from the string into both fields. Also if you run spotify in a different WINEPREFIX than ~/.wine , edit spotify.pl and change spotify_data (e.g. for me:)

spotify_data_dir = “%s/WineApps/Spotify/drive_c/windows/profiles/%s” \
“/Application Data/Spotify/Users/%s-user” \
% (home_dir, sys_user, spotify_login)

By: defiancee

defiancee — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:11:52 +0000

Just had a problem with my client. It works now. Thanks for the guide anyway!

By: defiancee

defiancee — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:21:56 +0000

Hi. This stopped working for me with a new version of Spotify. Does anyone have a solution?

By: somedood

somedood — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:31:30 +0000

Awesome! Works brilliantly

By: hanum

hanum — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:49:17 +0000

Nice one. Thank’s for info sharing ^_^

By: Jjukka

Jjukka — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:06:54 +0000

It`s alive, it`s alive!! So it works after all..Thank you very many and goodnight!

By: Jjukka

Jjukka — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:22:07 +0000

Doesn`t work for me. There is spotify setting in plugins but nothing happens when i enabled it?? I`m using Karmic Koala alpha 4

By: Y

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:58:15 +0000

Thank you for this. It made my life so mush easier