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June 09 2008

Musictracker for Pidgin

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I always loved the IRC plug-in that lets you display your song information in a channel. Although it is a sure way to get a ban from a channel if you use it frequently :D . Anyway one of these days I noticed one of my friends on IRC have the same functionality in Pidgin. So after checking further with him I found out that there is a plug-in for it called Musictracker.

After checking the repositories for hardy I found that it was also available in there. To install it just enter the following code.

sudo apt-get install pidgin-musictracker




Now if you open Pidgin go to Tools > Plugins and select MusicTracker . You can clik on the Configure Button. This should give you the screen displayed below.

You can select the player or just set it on Auto. Further you can configure the output of the Musictracker in this screen. After you are done click Close and reconfirm that you do have it selected. Now open your media player if you don’t have one open already and play a song. Pidgin should have updated your status with the song you are playing.

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