TIP Audacious - now playing in Gaim2/Pidgin's status

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Install pidgin-mpris, which is a pidgin plugin that can get track info from MPRIS-aware players.

You can find a gentoo ebuild in the overlay stored at http://hg.atheme.org/users/majeru/portage-overlay/

Restart pidgin, then configure the pidgin-mpris plugin as you like

Set %now-playing as your pidgin status

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