When I’m working on my computer and listening to some music, I’ll usually set iChat’s status message to ‘Current iTunes Song’ so those on my buddy list can see what I’m listening to.
This does just that, displays the song title only. I wanted it to also display the artist name, and the fact that it’s what was currently playing in iTunes (otherwise it would appear that I’m just promoting a certain artist and song to the world).
Navigate to~/Library
/Preferences/
iChat/com.apple.
iChatAgent.plist and open it in Property List Editor or a text editor. If you don’t have Property List Editor installed, I’d highly reccommend doing so. It can be found on your Tiger or Leopard install disc, in the Developer folder.
Find the entry called ‘iTunesMessageFormat‘ and change it to whatever you want. By defualt, it should say %Track. I made mine say Listening to: %Artist - %Track to show that I’m currently listening to a certain artist and their song. I’m not 100% sure what other fields will work, but I’d assume things like %Album %Year %Genre %Playlist etc would work.
Enjoy!
LMAO!!!! bahahahahahhaha! i love that my doofus face is published to the internet. front and center.
btw. heard of the concept “tribook” by apple? check it out, it’s pretty sweeet!
Hey at least I had the decency to block out screen names!
Yeah, I saw that concept in Macworld or Mac|Life or one of the Apple magazines I subscribe to. It’s actually a design by the magazine, nothing to do with the big A, but it’s still interesting. I just want an AppleTV with built in DVR and I’ll be good for a while.