[HOW-TO] Pidgin-Rhythmbox 2.0 plug-in

[dustyg54]

Hi there,

I would like to see the title of the radio stream I'm listening to.

What do I have to change in the line: '%tile' by %artist ?

Or isn't this possible?

I listen to radio streams a lot as well. On mine, when i type %rb in the away line (or available line, both work for me), and then start the stream in Rhythmbox, it just says what the title of the radio station is under my name in the buddy list.

Thats cool and all, but if a radio stream provides artist/song names to Rhythmbox, can they be seen on pidgin too somehow? i currently have 2 streams, one provides artist/song info to Rhythmbox, but the other doesnt.

[omega13a]

Yes, you are right. It works but you can't see your status changed. To check try to add yourself to your contact list.

Tried that. It just shows %rb...

[gregorej]

Same here. Pidgin shows just %rb. Plugin is active, compiled without errors. Restarted both rhythmbox and pidgin - still nothing. I am using pidgin 2.5.2 and rhythmbox 0.11.6.

[rko618]

For people currently looking for this I strongly recommend installing pidgin-musictracker via apt-get instead of messing with the Pidigin-Rhythmbox plugin.

Pidgin-musictracker is a newer plugin and supports a wide variety of music players not just Rhythmbox. In addition the configuration options are much nicer.

[loweehahn]

kelvin@ubuntu:~$ cd ~/Desktop
kelvin@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ cd pidgin-r*
kelvin@ubuntu:~/Desktop/pidgin-rhythmbox-2.0$
kelvin@ubuntu:~/Desktop/pidgin-rhythmbox-2.0$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
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checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
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checking dependency style of g++... none
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checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no
checking whether accepts -g... no
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking for correct ltmain.sh version... yes
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
configure: creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for pidgin... configure: error: Package requirements (pidgin >= 2.0.0) were not met:

No package 'pidgin' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables pidgin_CFLAGS
and pidgin_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

kelvin@ubuntu:~/Desktop/pidgin-rhythmbox-2.0$ sudo make
[sudo] password for kelvin:
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
kelvin@ubuntu:~/Desktop/pidgin-rhythmbox-2.0$ sudo make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
kelvin@ubuntu:~/Desktop/pidgin-rhythmbox-2.0$

This is what showed in the terminal. What should I do next?

[kevdog]

Do you need the pidgin sources to compile this?

[loweehahn]

I don't know. I just want to get the plugin working that's it. Please help me.

[gunbladeiv]

There are a plugin to display current track played in rhythmbox. It's called pidgin-musictracker which is in ubuntu repositories. just

apt-get install pidgin-musictracker

and tick to enable the plugin. it's easier and no need to compile.

[loweehahn]

I tried but can't. Here's the result:

kelvin@ubuntu:~$ apt-get install pidgin-musictracker
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

I login as root and tried again but the same message appeared.

[billynomates]

For people currently looking for this I strongly recommend installing pidgin-musictracker via apt-get instead of messing with the Pidigin-Rhythmbox plugin.

Pidgin-musictracker is a newer plugin and supports a wide variety of music players not just Rhythmbox. In addition the configuration options are much nicer.

I second this! It's simple as hell, and has a nice GUI to edit your statuses with.

Don't bother with all that other crap