Re: [slim] Trying to get Squeezebox to send Now Playing to Trillian Astra without writing a app
Coopw02; which you didnt offer a solution's with Trillian astra, I just wanted to say, I really appreciate your friendly answer. Not everyone is as nice as you; and, try to devote an extraordinary time to discredit/put down/use short, unhelpful derogatory comments. to reaffirm thei imaginary superiority. I hope that more (not specific to this forum) will follow your example. Bottomo line, the best OS is the one that makes the user the happiest. cooppw02;516006 Wrote: Why would I be upset? I'm a Linux guy. I use ugly software all the time, and I like it that way. :) As for a fancier default interface for Pidgin... that's not going to happen. See: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin#LookFeel They have the typical open-source attitude of If you don't like it, the source config files are located over there. Open source developers are also hostile toward scope creep, which is why you probably won't see them doing a web service like Meebo. All that being said, you can probably change GTK themes to make Pidgin blend in with your desktop a lot better. -- mkanet mkanet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7965 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75125 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Trying to get Squeezebox to send Now Playing to Trillian Astra without writing a app
It seems everywhere I look there's a plugin for apps Astra, MIRC, Aim, Yahoo, MSN, etc to accept Winamp, WMP, MPC currently playing song. Several years after asking for a feature request in Slimserver, Squeezecenter, Squeezebox to provide a clever way to support feeding multiple apps with some kind of Now Playing status, without success, I thought it might be just easier for squeezebox to pretent it's Winamp or Windows Media Player when providing the currently playing song for at least having some way of getting now playing to *Trillian Astra* I spent a lot of time figuring out a way to do something with Last.FM's audioscrobbler RSS feed; but, since I'm not a software engineer, I can't make an app which simply updates Currently Playing to all social networking, chat apps via audioscrbler. I think that would be a great idea; and, probably the best way to do it. Perhaps there are other people here who use trillian or Astra which would love to have their Squeezebox specific clients' playback show up in their status. Trillian Astra developers seem to feel WinAmp, Windows Media Player, Itunes, even Media Player classic to have native support for now playing. Does anyone know have an easy way to get this working in Astra? Its hard to believe Logitech Squeezebox isnt popular enough for Trillian Astra to support it. I even tried something ridiculously desperate by putting my audioscrobbler RSS link under Trillian's status, custom message... but doesnt accept URLS. I dont know, maybe what I'm asking is still a little too ahead of it's time and need to be patient for Squeezebox to become even more popular for people like Trillian to be excited to support natively I searched some kind of tool that support Trillian Astra, but -- mkanet mkanet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7965 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75125 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Trying to get Squeezebox to send Now Playing to Trillian Astra without writing a app
mkanet;515965 Wrote: Its hard to believe Logitech Squeezebox isnt popular enough for Trillian Astra to support it. SBS usage accounts for only a tiny slice of all media player usage, and Trillian is similarly (un)popular. The intersection of users of both applications is vanishingly small. If you're willing to switch IM clients, I believe there are plugins for Pidgin that will pull info from Last.fm and apply it to your profile. -- cooppw02 cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75125 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Trying to get Squeezebox to send Now Playing to Trillian Astra without writing a app
Thanks for your suggestion. I upgraded from Pidgin to Astra as soon as Astra become available via beta. I used Pidgin for longer than you might guess; and, definitely prefer it over the last generation Trillian because of the active plugin support... Please dont beat me up for saying this... because it might make you pretty upset, but lets face it, Pidgin badly needs a complete overhaul to update itself for modern OS's; and, also really could use the ability to run in a browser without having to install a client... even Meebo does that. I'll definitely consider switching back to Pidgin; but, waiting for a completely renovated, next generation version (the same way classic Trillian evolved to Astra may take years to catch up. Below is a screenshot of my desktop with Astra... blending into all modern day apps... However, no matter how great Astra is, it still doesnt have Squeezebox support damnit! :) Astra: [image: http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h283/mkanet/2324553.jpg] Pidgin: [image: http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h283/mkanet/eeb527f1ec7a-1.jpg] cooppw02;515979 Wrote: SBS usage accounts for only a tiny slice of all media player usage, and Trillian is similarly (un)popular. The intersection of users of both applications is vanishingly small. If you're willing to switch IM clients, I believe there are plugins for Pidgin that will pull info from Last.fm and apply it to your profile. -- mkanet mkanet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7965 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75125 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Trying to get Squeezebox to send Now Playing to Trillian Astra without writing a app
mkanet;515983 Wrote: Please dont beat me up for saying this... because it might make you pretty upset, but lets face it, Pidgin badly needs a complete overhaul to update itself for modern OS's; and, also really could use the ability to run in a browser without having to install a client... even Meebo does that. Why would I be upset? I'm a Linux guy. I use ugly software all the time, and I like it that way. :) As for a fancier default interface for Pidgin... that's not going to happen. See: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin#LookFeel They have the typical open-source attitude of If you don't like it, the source config files are located over there. Open source developers are also hostile toward scope creep, which is why you probably won't see them doing a web service like Meebo. All that being said, you can probably change GTK themes to make Pidgin blend in with your desktop a lot better. -- cooppw02 cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75125 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
