If you’re using instant messenger, you might want to display you’re WinAmp currently playing song on your instant messenger status. This way, your friend might get to know you better since they’ll see what song you’re currently listening (which probably your favourite songs). You can also tease your friends by playing some rare songs or the newest single from your friend’s favourite singer :p

Fortunately, now there are already a bunch of plugins for WinAmp outthere that make displaying current playing song on instant messenger status possible. Here are some of them.

For Yahoo! Messenger, I’m using WA2Y – YM Status Changer v0.96. It’s one of the plugin for Yahoo! Messenger that really works. I’ve tried two other plugins with no success before I ended up with WA2Y. It’s highly customizable too. You can change the status format (how WinAmp current playing song displayed on YM status message) and the type of status for YM if you quit WinAmp.

Other WinAmp plugin to display current playing song on Yahoo! Messenger:

• YM Status Mixer
• Y! Amp
• YMS Status Changer
• yStatus
• MS Gramp

Next, MSN Messenger. My choice is MSN Messenger 7 Current Playing Song. Eventhough the title of this plugin is long, but this one installed without any problem at all. No configuration dialog too. Simply install and play.

Other WinAmp plugin to display current playing song on MSN Messenger:

• Moo – Gen MSN
• Gen MSN
• Song Title to MSN
• MSN Now Playing
• Toaster

For other instant messengers (I only use Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger, so I haven’t tried these plugins):

• Messanger Status – for ICQLite/Pro and Trillian
• SINfo Beta – for AOL Instant Messenger
• Now Playing – for AOL Instant Messenger
• AudiStream RC1 – for AOL Instant Messenger, American Online, and Yahoo! Messenger

You can also display your current playing song on mIRC and other IRC client, I’ll post about that later :p

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