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:
- Open your Home folder and press Ctrl + H (To view hidden folders).
- Open the folder called .xchat2 (Note the dot) and place the downloaded listen.py file in it.
- 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.
