Music Status with GAIM
Posted On Sunday, February 18, 2007 at at 4:09 AM by Lokesh I was looking for a GAIM plugin to support music status feature similar to GTalk. With Music Tracker plugin, I was able to get this feature working on my google, hotmail, yahoo accounts.
Initial versions of this plugin used XMMS Infopipes, which took much of system resources. Version 0.2.2 is quite good and it uses libxmms instead of info pipe.
To get this working (i tried on ubuntu)
- Download from here
- Extract tar -xvjf musictracker-0.2.2.tar.bz2
- Compile
- cd musictracker-0.2.2
- ./configure
- sudo make
- sudo make install
- If you dont find libxmms.so in /usr/lib and you have something like libxmms.so.1.3.1 make a link as
- sudo ln -s libxmms.so libxmms.so.1.3.1
Step 4 is just an work around. Actually version 0.2.2 plugin looks for libxmms.so