Live Free…Live in style…

There is a music tracker plugin that comes along with the pidgin 30 plugins.. but that doesn’t work good for me and i use only amarok for music. So i decided to write myself a music tracker.
A file in .purple/status.track in the home folder is used to keep track of the available and away status.
This one needs to be started explicity with the pidgin.

Here is the code:

pstatus=`cat $HOME/.purple/status.track`
title=$(dcop amarok player title)
title=`echo $title|cut -d'-' -f1`
album=$(dcop amarok player album)
album=`echo $album|cut -d'-' -f1`
purple-remote "setstatus?status=$pstatus&message=Amarok Now Playing: $title : $album"
while [ TRUE ]; do
pstatusn=`cat $HOME/.purple/status.track`
if [ "$pstatusn" != "$pstatus" ]
then
purple-remote "setstatus?status=$pstatusn&message=Amarok Now Playing: $title : $album"
pstatus=$pstatusn
fi
newtitle=$(dcop amarok player title)
stat=$(dcop amarok player isPlaying)
newtitle=`echo $newtitle|cut -d'-' -f1`
if [ "$stat" = true ]
then
if [ "$title" != "$newtitle" ]
then
album=$(dcop amarok player album)
album=`echo $album|cut -d'-' -f1`\
newtitle=$(dcop amarok player title)
newtitle=`echo $newtitle|cut -d'-' -f1`
purple-remote "setstatus?status=$pstatus&message=Amarok Now Playing: $newtitle : $album"
title=$newtitle
fi
elif [ "$stat" = false ]
then
purple-remote "setstatus?status=$pstatus&message=Amarok Now Playing: Amarok Paused"
fi
done

You can also append a message with the music name if you want by editing the script at the purple-remote command lines