Show what music you are playing on Pidgin

So you want the world to know what cool tunes you are currently listening to on your Ubuntu? Well, perhaps not the whole world, but at least your IM contacts. First thing you need is to be using Pidgin, and your favorite music player (I use Rhythmbox), since we will install a plugin to link our music player to our messenger. Open the Synaptic Package Manager (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager), click the button Search, and enter “pidgin-musictracker”. Right click on the available package (it should be just one), and select “Mark for Installation”. Click Apply.

If you are already running Pidgin, restart it. Once it has started, click on the Tools menu, option Plugins. Look for “MusicTracker”. Enable it by clicking on the checkbox. You can optionally select it and click on Configure Plugin to have more fun. That’s it!