Harsh J

I recently blogged about the lesser-known Listen Music Player for GNOME.

Being an XChat IRC user I wanted a plugin (or do you spell it plug-in?) similar to the ones for Amarok, Exaile or Banshee, etc to display my current playing song along with the artist and album information. But I couldn’t find one out there, so I decided to modify the Amarok one and made one myself for Listen Music Player.

So all, say hello to my first ever release:

Download Listen Announcer
XChat plugin for Listen Music Player
(Right click and choose Save As …)

Its easy to install and use this in XChat, and here are the steps:

Installation:

Graphical (Easy) Method:

1. Open your Home folder and press Ctrl + H (To view hidden folders).
2. Open the folder called .xchat2 (Note the dot) and place the downloaded listen.py file in it.
3. Start or restart XChat and the Listen Announcer plugin will automatically load

Command (Faster) Method:
Give the command:
mv listen.py ~/.xchat/

Or another way is to open XChat and go to the XChat menu and choose the Load Plugin or Script … option and from the dialog box that appears, choose the listen.py file. This method doesn’t make the loading automatic however. Anyone of the previous methods make the loading automatic.

Usage:

Give the command /lis in any channel to make it display the current song.

An example: [QwertyM] is listening to ‘US History’ by ‘Flipsyde’ on ‘We the People’

Of course, give /help lis for more information.

Enjoy!

Note: You may need the Python module for XChat to make this Listen Announcer plugin work.