pidgin-musictracker is a plugin for Pidgin which publicises your currently
playing media to your contacts.

Currently supported players:

on Linux:
  * Amarok, Audacious, Banshee, Exaile, Last.fm feed, Listen, MOC, MPD, Quod
    Libet, Rhythmbox, Songbird + DBusBird addon, SqueezeCenter, Vagalume, XMMS,
    XMMS2 >= 0.6
  * plus any player supporting the MPRIS DBus interface (Amarok2, BMPx,
    dragonplayer, Exaile >= 0.3, Goggles Music Manager, QMMP >=0.3, Rhythmbox,
    Songbird + MPRIS addon, VLC >0.9.0, etc.)

on Windows:
  * Foobar2000, iTunes, Last.fm feed, MPD, Winamp, Windows Media Player
  * plus any player with a 'winamp-compatible' interface (AIMP2, MediaMonkey,
    etc.)
  * plus any player with a 'Send "Now Playing" information to MSN Messenger'
    feature (Last.fm client, Media Player Classic, OpenPandora, Songbird +
    LiveTweeter, Spotify, TTplayer, VLC, etc.)


Features:
  * Allows you to customize the status string with various fields extracted from
    your media player such as artist, album, track, duration, progress bar, etc.
  * Different status messages for various media player states such as Playing,
    Paused and Stopped. You can choose to use the normal status message (by
    default in the stoppped state).
  * '/nowplaying' inserts the now-playing information into your conversation
  * Supports per-account status format customization.
  * You may choose to have your away message override musictracker.
  * Optional profanity filter for words in the status.
  * Can auto-detect which player is in use.


Notes:
  * To show now playing in MSN personal status messages you must be using pidgin
    2.5.0 or later (or msn-pecan). If you have ever had musictracker 0.4.1 or
    earlier installed, you must reinstall pidgin for MSN personal status
    messages to work correctly. (See  issue 15 , FAQ #2)
  * See the wiki page for details on configuring your player and musictracker
    to work together.