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Update Gtalk status from Spotify

September 12th, 2009

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Spotify is an excellent free P2P music streaming service that is currently available to residents of UK, France and neighboring countries. Most of the Gtalk users like to update their status with the current track that they are listening to. Gtalk supports Windows Media Player, Winamp and iTunes. Now that Spotify is becoming a craze, I thought of making a small application to update the Gtalk status directly from the current track from Spotify.

This application is written in C#, and hence will require the latest .net Framework to be installed on your machine. At present only windows version of Spotify is supported as official Gtalk application is not available for other platforms. Feel free to post bugs and improvements, although its a small application.:)

This is a early version, hence there might be some bugs. Please report them at aditya[at]novocained[dot]com

SCREENSHOT
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EDIT : This app somehow fails to work when you select “Current Music Track” option from Gtalk. Set the status to “Available” or “Busy”

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Author: Aditya Categories: Labs, Windows Tags: C#, Gtalk, Spotify

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amit

September 12th, 2009 at 19:28 | #1

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Put some screenshots up man! And put it on digg, reddit etc
Aditya

September 13th, 2009 at 03:20 | #2

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Hey amit! There is hardly anything that can be captured as screenshot and kept here. You can always help me by Digging it, the link are always below the posts.
Aditya

September 13th, 2009 at 06:28 | #3

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Added screenshot
Pranay

September 17th, 2009 at 11:48 | #4

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Doesn’t work – It does detect the song correctly from Spotify but doesn’t update my Gtalk. I tried signing in/out of Gtalk and changing the status to current music track but no effect.

Any ideas?

I have the latest .net framework and run Vista.
Aditya

September 19th, 2009 at 06:21 | #5

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Thanks for your feedback Pranay
Just keep the status as “Available” or “Busy” whatever you prefer. If you select “Current Music Track” sometimes there might be conflicts due to Gtalk activating its own plugin. Let me know if this doesn’t work.
SARATHI

October 5th, 2009 at 13:54 | #6

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FANTASTIC Work !!!!!
Thank you
Aditya

November 24th, 2009 at 04:21 | #7

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Thanks Sarathi!
Mikey

February 2nd, 2010 at 03:16 | #8

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Thank you very much for this!

Just a comment: if the spotify window is closed but spotify is still running (visible in the system tray) your application doesn’t work . It thinks Spotify is not running/playing.
Can you fix this?
Also, it would be great if your application could also be minimized to the system tray instead of the main taskbar
Aditya

February 8th, 2010 at 06:42 | #9

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Hi Mikey,
Thanks! Well, I wrote this tool some time back and never really looked at it again , although there is a better version which I have not released into public, as the guys at Spotify might not like it … It even captures the album art and saves it for your media.
I will add the “minimize to tray” option and see that it works with Spotify minimized as well.
dev

February 15th, 2010 at 05:11 | #10

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Sorry, the link doesnt work anymore.
I cannot download it, thanks! We need a mirror.
Aditya

February 27th, 2010 at 07:05 | #11

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Hey thanks for the heads-up dev. Fixed the link.