If you want to check out the prerelease (MTN) builds of Pidgin you can go here.
After downloading the package.. you should back up your Program Files\Pidgin and also Documents and Settings\{user} \Application Data\.pidgin .. and extract to Program Files\Pidgin
This way you could enjoy the benefits of new releases, earlier then when the milestone is reached.
PS:I’m now using a version of Pidgin which incorporates MSNP v14 (e.g. support for status messages on MSN)
Finally! What about custom smileys and music support?
By: Dmitry on 20071015
at 21:00:19
Custom smileys.. as in sending custom smileys will probably take a while. Receiving custom smileys on the other hand, I think it’s already supported by Pidgin on MSN.
Music support - do you mean “what I’m listening?”. If so.. there are a couple of plugins for Pidgin, but none of them work for me on Windows. As for the new Pidgin 2.2.2 it has support for MSN.. so I think that if you just play something in Windows Media player.. it would show up.. or not?! / 
PS: are we now going behind Рукси ? =))))
[LATER EDIT] Sending custom smilies is upcoming in 2.2.2
By: Andrie on 20071015
at 21:29:03
Unfortunately, I don’t have WMP the same way as I don’t have Windows. I’ll check the current track plugin out. Maybe I’ll stop using aMSN one day. Would be nice to have just one program for all my messaging needs.
P.S. Seems like it.
By: Dmitry on 20071016
at 6:19:14
I don’t know if you got to this link, but this is the one that tells about all song-playing plugins for Pidgin
Personally none of them proved to work properly on the Geek. Maybe you get lucky on the Penguin.
By: Andrie on 20071016
at 9:09:46
It turned out currenttrack doesn’t support Audacious so I tried musictracker. It compiled, installed and loaded successfully but didn’t work even after I changed the song format in playlist in Audacious to the way it wants it to be as it’s the only way the plugin can get the title. It would be much easier to use audtool to get all the info about the palyer and even control it but obviously musictracker developers don’t know that such possibility exists. Maybe I should contribute to one of these projects.
By: Dmitry on 20071016
at 14:39:58
It turned out that currenttrack not only doesn’t work, but crashes my Pidgin.
So.. please do it!
By: Andrie on 20071016
at 14:59:04
It’s much easier to use quick and dirty solution like this one I wrote.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import commands
status = commands.getoutput('audtool playback-status')
if status == 'playing':
artist = commands.getoutput('audtool current-song-tuple-data performer')
title = commands.getoutput('audtool current-song-tuple-data track_name')
commands.getoutput('purple-remote "setstatus?status=available&message=' \
+ artist + ' - ' + title + '"')
else:
os.system('purple-remote "setstatus?status=available&message="')
Make cron execute this script once in 5 seconds and that’s it.
By: Dmitry on 20071016
at 15:59:46
The only problem is that it is not cross-platform
By: Andrie on 20071016
at 16:44:39
It’s quick and dirty but works for me.
By: Dmitry on 20071016
at 22:53:50
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